External Hard Drive not showing files

Polish Machine said:
add 'everyone" as owner and check the box "replace owner on subcontainers and objects"
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I did this, and it scanned the hard drive for a long time, going through the contents. However, I still get the access denied screen
 
Sigh GunRanger said:
I did this, and it scanned the hard drive for a long time, going through the contents. However, I still get the access denied screen
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1) Turn off UAC (User Account Control)

1) Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> User Accounts
2) Click "Change User Account Control Settings"
3) Move slider all the way down to "Never Notify"
4) Reboot

2) Take Ownership

Yes take ownership. Even though you are logged on as an Administrator, you can't change files that don't belong to you. The Program Files folder is set to the Trusted Installer group and the Administrator doesn't have the rights to change anything. So now we have to claim all the files and folders.

1) Open Windows Explorer
2) R-Click on Program Files -> Properties -> Security Tab
3) Click Advanced -> Owner
4) Click Edit
5) Select Administrators -> Put a checkmark in Replace owner on subcontainers & objects -> Apply
6) Wait a while.....
7) When it finishes, Click OK on all boxes to close everything

3) Fix Permissions

Now that you own the files, you have to give yourself permission to modify them

1) R-Click on Program Files -> Properties -> Security Tab
2) Click Advanced -> Change Permission
3) Select Administrators (any entry) -> Edit
4) Change the Apply To drop down box to This Folder, Subfolder & Files
5) Put check in Full Control under Allow column -> OK -> Apply
6) Wait some more.....
7) When it finishes, the dialog boxes may hide behind the Explorer window. Minimize it and click OK on all the the dialog boxes
8.) Reboot
 
Polish Machine said:
1) Turn off UAC (User Account Control)

1) Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> User Accounts
2) Click "Change User Account Control Settings"
3) Move slider all the way down to "Never Notify"
4) Reboot
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I'll try the whole thing tomorrow, but why is this part necessary?
 
SGR- if all that fails, try and boot your machine using that hard drive.
You'll want to boot into the bios and change the boot order so that usb devices are first, and then save and exit.
When you restart it will try and boot using your old hard drive so you'll want to spam F8 on boot and choose safe mode w/networking to avoid any driver conflicts. But if it boots up you should be in luck.
 
Polish Machine said:
1) Turn off UAC (User Account Control)

1) Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> User Accounts
2) Click "Change User Account Control Settings"
3) Move slider all the way down to "Never Notify"
4) Reboot

2) Take Ownership

Yes take ownership. Even though you are logged on as an Administrator, you can't change files that don't belong to you. The Program Files folder is set to the Trusted Installer group and the Administrator doesn't have the rights to change anything. So now we have to claim all the files and folders.

1) Open Windows Explorer
2) R-Click on Program Files -> Properties -> Security Tab
3) Click Advanced -> Owner
4) Click Edit
5) Select Administrators -> Put a checkmark in Replace owner on subcontainers & objects -> Apply
6) Wait a while.....
7) When it finishes, Click OK on all boxes to close everything

3) Fix Permissions

Now that you own the files, you have to give yourself permission to modify them

1) R-Click on Program Files -> Properties -> Security Tab
2) Click Advanced -> Change Permission
3) Select Administrators (any entry) -> Edit
4) Change the Apply To drop down box to This Folder, Subfolder & Files
5) Put check in Full Control under Allow column -> OK -> Apply
6) Wait some more.....
7) When it finishes, the dialog boxes may hide behind the Explorer window. Minimize it and click OK on all the the dialog boxes
8.) Reboot
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No need for me to add anything, nice write up.

I've been reading that this is an issue with Win8.

If the previous instructions doesn't work, try to run an elevated administrator command prompt, and see if you can access the drive using a simple DIR command (if you don't know how to do this, let us know and either I or someone else will step you through doing so).
 
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Polish Machine said:
3) Fix Permissions

Now that you own the files, you have to give yourself permission to modify them

1) R-Click on Program Files -> Properties -> Security Tab
2) Click Advanced -> Change Permission
3) Select Administrators (any entry) -> Edit
4) Change the Apply To drop down box to This Folder, Subfolder & Files
5) Put check in Full Control under Allow column -> OK -> Apply
6) Wait some more.....
7) When it finishes, the dialog boxes may hide behind the Explorer window. Minimize it and click OK on all the the dialog boxes
8.) Reboot
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I tried this, and it didn't work. I still don't have access to it. :(
 
I did, and same thing. It's still inaccessible.



Should I give SYSTEM the permissions too?
 
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marioh said:
did you try to see if you could access G: through an elevated command prompt?

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/a/elevated-command-prompt-windows-8.htm

once you have the elevated command prompt window open, type in the following (followed by enter for each line):

g:
dir

let me know if you get an access denied or if it lists folders and files.
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What do?
 
Sigh GunRanger said:
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What do?
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As i thought.
Explorer is running at a lower permission level and is why you're getting an access denied message when you're trying to access it through Explorer (whereas running the command prompt is being run with administrative rights).
I believe this is a Win8 thing.
I'm at work right now, so I can't really do research for you right now for this, but once i get home later, i'll see if i can hunt down the way to get this working, unless someone else beats me to it.
 
Sigh GunRanger said:
I did, and same thing. It's still inaccessible.



Should I give SYSTEM the permissions too?
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Setup the permissions in the following way (on the G: drive):

Authenticated Users - modify, r&e, lfc, read, write
System - full control (selecting that permission should automatically check every other category i think)
Administrators - full control
Users - r&e, lfc, read


Let me know if that works.
Oh, also...
r&e = read and execute
lfc = list folder contents
 
I don't know what that means. Talk me through the steps like you did before.
 
Sigh GunRanger said:
I don't know what that means. Talk me through the steps like you did before.
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Things may be a bit different since you have Win8, but it should be the similar.
Follow steps 1-7 in the link to get to disk management:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/a/disk-management-windows-8.htm

Find the G: drive, right click on it, and select Properties, and then Security.
Hopefully you'll see something similar to this:


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Click Edit which should be bring up a similar screen as this:


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If you got this far without issue, post a screen shot so we can see the current permissions setup.
If you couldn't get to this point, let me know where you got hung up.
If you're feeling lucky, you can revert back to my previous post and add or modify the access rights as I specified.
 
Sigh GunRanger said:
Marioh:

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In that Security tab, highlight System and put a checkmark in the box for Full Control in the Allow column. Click Apply.

Click Add in that Security Tab

Hopefully you'll see a screen similar to this:


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In the big white box, type in the following:

Authenticated Users;Users

Click on Check Names, and then click on OK.

Click on Authenticated Users, and check the permissions.
Make sure the following boxes have a check in the Allow column:
Modify, Read and Execute, List Folder Contents, Read, Write.

If you had to select anything, click Apply.

Click on Users, and check the permissions.
Make sure the following boxes have a check in the Allow column:
Read and Execute, List Folder Contents, Read

Click OK, reboot (may not have to, can try without doing so), and try to access the G: drive.
 
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