Fresh Windows Install Hard Drive Not accessable

Matthew Thompson-1279937 · Nov 24, 2014

Hey guys I just installed Windows 8, I came from Ubuntu. Well I now cannot access my Hard Drives, the only one I have access to is my SSD which is where the OS is installed. I have a 4TB Internal drive that when i go to My computer and click on it says "Location is not available" in the headline and the contents of the box say " N :\ is not accesible and the media is write protected" any ideas on how I can view the contents of the drive? Thanks!!

smorizio · Nov 24, 2014

window disk management in windows.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/disk-management-windows-7.htm

Matthew Thompson-1279937 · Nov 24, 2014

I can get to the Disk Management but it says read only when i go to extend it and it says the same thing "media write ptrotected" when i try to open.

Outlander_04 · Nov 24, 2014

The windows bootloader is never going to give you an option to start a linux OS

The fix is to reinstall linux on to its existing drive , and have its bootloader let you choose to start the OS you want

Matthew Thompson-1279937 · Nov 24, 2014

I don't want to use Linux anymore. I just want to access my Hard Drive? Do I have to install Linux just to view that Hard Drive?I don't want anything to do with Ubuntu right now.

Matthew Thompson-1279937 · Nov 24, 2014

Ive done this also http://smallbusiness.chron.com/disable-write-protection-hard-drive-54089.html

and nothing.

Outlander_04 · Nov 24, 2014

Matthew Thompson-1279937 :

Ok got you .
so whats probably happened is the hard drive is formatted in one of the formats Linux uses

Windows cant read those formats. MS are never helpful to people who want to use linux . The solution is to format it using disk management , but that will nuke all the files on it .

You could save files and folders to an external drive and transfer them back once the drive once its reformatted

Matthew Thompson-1279937 · Nov 25, 2014

Ok thank you for the reply. I am unable to access the drive to transfer files to another drive. Any idea on how to get to those files?

Someone Somewhere · Nov 25, 2014

Boot into Linux, copy the files from there onto another drive, then reboot into windows and format the drives.

Outlander_04 · Nov 25, 2014

someone somewhere is correct . You are going to need to boot to linux .

The easiest way to do that is probably booting from a live DVD . Ubuntu can do this . The website will have instructions . It may ask to create a small hard drive partition . Tell it to do that on the data drive not the SSD . Then when you format it you can first partition it and get that space back .

Someone Somewhere · Nov 25, 2014

It shouldn't need to create any partitions.

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