Drive | Folder Access Denied - External Hard Disk Not Accessible | FIX

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Drive/Folder Access Denied - External Hard Disk Folder Not Accessible FIX.

Sometimes, the disk shows a Location is not available window showing "Drive is not accessible. Access is denied" error message and files are not accessible .

Users have reported this issue in many different situations as well as on different versions of operating systems like Windows 10/8/7.

Issues addressed in this tutorial:

hard drive not showing up
hard drive not working
hard drive not found
hard drive not spinning
hard drive not appearing
hard drive not accessible windows 10
hard drive not appearing in disk management
hard drive not accessible parameter incorrect
hard drive, not accessible access denied

This tutorial will apply to computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems. Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).

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[Derptrex]

you know if you want people to like your vid then dont go on alts and spam "You're a GOD my man! I thought my projects were completely gone. Earned a sub :)"

[Sire_Presh]

I can't see security tab in the properties

[soubhikdas]

I am not getting the security options in properties in that denied access drive.

[helloitsme]

Hi, should I give the harddrive name followed by the device name? Please help me out it is asking me to type a valid object name followed by slash.

[miodragstanojlovic]

This is also the only video amongst dozens I watched that actually fixed the issue for me. Thanks Bro

[wl]

This is the only video amongst dozens I watched that actually fixed the issue for me. Thank you.

[lopetallo]

This really a big help for me. Finally after a week, I fixed my external hard drive. Thank you so much to the owner of the video. ☺️

[BasitAbbasi]

Thank you so much man. My stupid IT department gave up to my Hard Drive and said it needs to be replaced. You just saved my precious data.

[delubyotv]

Finally I have accessed my 1 tera xternal hard drive. SHould have known this way before. have reformatted or thrown away old drives . Thank you for helping us. god bless you!

[sharinagalamgam]

What if on the "owner part" it says unknown owner?

[zcnx]

Thank you my friend, even tech support at Seagate failed to help me...
at 1st, the disk turned into RAW file state, i changed it to NTFS on my own,
2nd after i changed to NTFS i had access denied.... now thanks to you i have control over my Seagate external HDD

Thank you very much !

[nyanjaabraham]

Boss thank you so much, you don't know what you have just guided me through!! I was so scared that I might not get my data back. Thanks

[zeunig]

You're a GOD my man! I thought my projects were completely gone. Earned a sub :)

[Isha]

Genius!!! I couldn't see any files at all, now I got back all of them!!! THANKS A LOT!!!

[dinhomhm]

Thank you very much sir.
I am able to grant permission one by one, but lower folders and files does not take these permission automatically (because no permission allowed), I still have to access every level and edit the permissions manually, it works, but difficult, since I have a lot of directories.
is there a solution for this too?

[iIbrahimAlii]

OMG, I've been going over a lot of tutorials and blogs looking for solutions and tried everything. Thank god you are here to help. Thank you so much. Easy and functional❤

Edit: Tried it on windows 11 and it works

[nexustv]

problem solved bro, but some files are corrupted or asks me for authorization. can you help me?

[veerbhoyroo]

bro I've been desperately trying for almost a month with other tutorials. Thank you so much, you've earned a sub!

[Sway.]

Just spent an hour watching useless videos when this took less than 5 minutes

[VictoryGamingDragon]

This worked for my Western Digital Elements external hard drive. Thank you!