So i have a secondary hard drive in my computer and Vista sees the drive but when i try to open it it tell me access is denied. this just started recently. i have used this drive for over 2 years now flawlessly. i have tried everything i can think of. any ideas? by the way when i go to properties it shows that the drive isnt using any space and it has no space available... thanks in advance.
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G: Acess is denied?
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heatlesssun
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I've seen this issue and if the drive has been working and no security permissions have changed then your looking at a bad drive. One thing I do is put the drive in a USB enclosure and see if it can be accessed that way. If it doesn't spin up you are probably looking at a bad drive.
ok. i shall try that i guess... this sucks if you are right because its a 500 gig movies storage drive... with lots and lots of movies stored. just out of curiosity im gonna plug it into either my win 7 beta machine or another vist machine i have just to see if that brings me any luck. thanks.
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Yeah, the same thing happed to me a couple of months ago and it does suck. I try to keep things like movies that will fit on DVD9's on that. As much cooler it is to keep stuff on a hard drive, you gotta have some backup.