Drive D Is Not Accessible! Access Is Denied Solution

Hi,

Recently my PC broke down, when all things was done and the only option left was formatting my PC, this I did. I am very well confident that all my important data are safe because I saved them in my Drive D partition. After formatting everything will be as is, I thought.

But beyond my imagination, something else happened. After formatting, when I tried to open Drive D, an angry message box pop-out: "Drive D is not accessible. Access is denied!" Good grief!!!

Do I also need to format my Drive D that holds all my backups? I will lost everything. Everything will be lost! That I cannot afford to think so, I googled for solution. After hours of brow-burning, I finally found the solution for my problem.

And I share them here. There are three ways to cure this problem:

1. By resetting the Attributes:

Run CMD.exe, you need to run it as an Administrator.
At the command prompt, type:

ATTRIB -S -H -R X:\* /S /D then press ENTER

X: is your drive letter, in my case it is D:

If this will not save you, go to number two solution.

2. By using the TAKEOWN command:

Run CMD.exe, you need to run it as an Administrator.
Using the command prompt, type:

TAKEOWN /F X:\ /R /D Y then press ENTER

X: is your drive letter, in my case it is D:

If still this does not help, number three solution should do the job.

3. By resetting the NTFS Permission:

Run CMD.exe, you need to run it as an Administrator.
At the command prompt, type:

CACLS X:\ /T /C /G EVERYONE:F

X: is your drive letter, in my case it is D:


These three solution helped me and revived my sleeping Drive D.

If they will not help you, maybe there are other solutions, so don't format yet your Drive, try to explore more.

If in any case you got tired of searching and have opted to format your drive you can still revive/restore your files by utilizing Drive Recovery Tools which are available in the net, some free, some with fee. The choice is yours.


Hope this helps.



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Arnel