Hard drive partition error "E:\ is not accessible. Access is denied"

Whirlingdervish · Jan 15, 2015

Hi all,

Hope you can help. I've Googled and searched here, and the answers I have found for this problem have not worked.

My second partition on my main hard drive is firing the above error. This partition has hugely important files on it (they're backed up, but not as recently as they should be!).

I've trying as many security-related options as possible, but most suggest sequences can't be completed on my windows 7.

For example, some have suggested to change ownership of the drive, but when I follow the protocol, I see no button for changing ownership.

I have a third-party software called Partition Manager (free version), and it was after I was perusing this software that my problem began. I was contemplating changing the size of the partition, but am not convinced I "did" anything on that software that could have rendered the partition inaccessible.

That software "sees" the content of the partition, but I can't access it, either from "my computer', or from within the software.

I also tried using a method of changing the user settings, but the suggested protocol couldn't be completed because one of the suggested parameters didn't exist for me to change.

Any thoughts? Thanks for your help!

Whirlingdervish · Jan 17, 2015

Ok, this helped a lot. It took a bit of finagling, since I had multiple user IDs show up in my system (for some unknown reason), so it took a bit of trying different options, but poof, on about the 10th try, it worked!

Thanks for the help!

However, now I have multiple directories that have the little lock symbol on them. Doesn't seem to affect their performance, but it does seem odd. They all seem to work, though. I did a search, and some of the solutions to this problem haven't worked. Any easy solutions?

Parag_ · Jan 30, 2016

Whirlingdervish :

Hi all,

Hope you can help. I've Googled and searched here, and the answers I have found for this problem have not worked.

My second partition on my main hard drive is firing the above error. This partition has hugely important files on it (they're backed up, but not as recently as they should be!).

I've trying as many security-related options as possible, but most suggest sequences can't be completed on my windows 7.

For example, some have suggested to change ownership of the drive, but when I follow the protocol, I see no button for changing ownership.

I have a third-party software called Partition Manager (free version), and it was after I was perusing this software that my problem began. I was contemplating changing the size of the partition, but am not convinced I "did" anything on that software that could have rendered the partition inaccessible.

That software "sees" the content of the partition, but I can't access it, either from "my computer', or from within the software.

I also tried using a method of changing the user settings, but the suggested protocol couldn't be completed because one of the suggested parameters didn't exist for me to change.

Any thoughts? Thanks for your help!

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