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If the volume is not accessible in regular Windows mode but has a drive letter, try to use a system level tool such as antivirus app, malware bytes, etc. (Of note, the drive is mounted in a USB to SATA external enclosure.) Files can easily be copied to a flash drive or even the primary hard drive Windows has booted from. None of the dreaded Access is Denied foolishness. Boot into safe mode and the drive is accessible. It’s purely a Windows thing.Īfter losing most of the rest of my very short hair and somewhat sane mind, I did a lot of research on forums such as this and found a trick that worked. Curiously, the hard drive itself passed ALL diagnostics with Linux tools such as Parted Magic and Knoppix as being a happy home for data. None of the usual tricks to make Windows work again would coax it back to boot – even in safe mode. I had this problem with a client’s Vista laptop hard drive that would not boot at all and had no restore point to recover from.

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Reference: cacls is a handy tool to change permissions of files “en masse”.

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For that try to take ownership of the files first. It is possible that “ icacls” might fail. Make sure you backup the permissions before you proceed! That’s it! After that, the files permissions were reset and I could access them back again. Step 3: To reset all the files permissions, type: Step 2: Go to the drive or folder in question, for example: Note: In MS Windows 8 and above, press the Win+X keys, then choose “Command Prompt (Admin)”. To reset files permissions, follow these easy 3 steps:

I tried to right-click/properties on the folders that were not accessible and changed their owner and changed permissions but still some folders were still inaccessible not matter what I did.Īfter some research, it turned out the tool “cacls” that allows one to display or change ACLs (access control lists) can help to reset ACLs. The second partition (D:) had some files security set on files and folders.Īfter Windows 7 was installed, some files on drive D: were not accessible anymore and I was getting “Access Denied”. I was running Vista with two NTFS partitions (C: and D:), then formatted C: partition and installed Windows 7. I have released a new graphical user interface utility to reset the files permissions.