- Jan 2, 2015
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When I try to open my external HDD in Explorer I get the error message "X:\ is not accessible. Access is denied." I've been googling around and tried to change ownership, etc. on both Win 7 and 8.1but to no avail.
The drive itself seems to work fine, most or all files show up if I scan it with Piriform's Recuva for example (the file tree at least) and according to CrystalDiskInfo it's fine too, it's just Windows which is unwilling to let me work with it.
Can somebody name me a good (and preferably free) software be for copying those files to a healthy drive? I tried Recuva as I said, but it just seems to scan for and recover deleted files (the ones I'm looking for aren't, they're just inaccessible). Or maybe there is another trick (would booting into Ubuntu work or sth)?
Thanks a lot in advance.
The drive itself seems to work fine, most or all files show up if I scan it with Piriform's Recuva for example (the file tree at least) and according to CrystalDiskInfo it's fine too, it's just Windows which is unwilling to let me work with it.
Can somebody name me a good (and preferably free) software be for copying those files to a healthy drive? I tried Recuva as I said, but it just seems to scan for and recover deleted files (the ones I'm looking for aren't, they're just inaccessible). Or maybe there is another trick (would booting into Ubuntu work or sth)?
Thanks a lot in advance.
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