Tuesday, August 11, 2015

windows - Access denied to external drive for one desktop

I have a Samsung G2 external USB 2.0 drive. It works fine with most Windows 7/10 machines, yet for some reason I cannot really use it with one Windows 10 desktop.


Anything I try to do, I get an error that indicates a problem with privileges, i.e., mostly it is "Access Denied" or similar. Weird thing is that somehow I was able to use it for like an hour yesterday yet later, out of nowhere, the errors started popping up again.


I do not use Windows in English so the error messages I mention may sound slightly different in English.


What I have tried so far:



  1. Entering Security tab and changing permissions - when I press
    "Change", I only get information that I do not have privileges to
    edit the permissions for this object; "Cannot display owner" is printed in the window where the current owner info should be shown.

  2. Logging on to the Administrator account, running cmd as
    administrator and trying



    • takeown /F F:\ /R (got ERROR: Access Denied)

    • chkdsk F:\ (got Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges.
      You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode.
      )


  3. Plugging into different USB port (3.0/2.0 as well).


  4. Checking drivers - they report to be up-to-date.

  5. Running HDDScan's SMART - got UltraDMA CRC Errors valued at 100 (the drive's been used for some time already)

  6. Running sfc /scannow - no errors found.


Any ideas? Where should I search for some tips or clues on, at least, what is faulty - OS, drive or, maybe, USB ports? Anything else than this drive works fine with USB ports in this desktop.

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