Drive is not accessible. access denied.

[justinbowness15]

Hello guys,

For some unknown reason i have suddenly started getting the message " location is not available c:\ is not accessible - access is denied "

i have made sure i am the Administrator and in that account.


Any help would be greatly apreciated as i am stuck.

thanks

 

[Xttony]

So you have your operating system installed in C drive and you cannot access it.

 

[justinbowness15]

Hi, yes windows 7 is installed along with many other programs all in C:\ drive but as soon as i click (highlight) the drive in "my computer" , or try delete a file in pictures, dowloads, on my desktop or anywhere a file is located i just get the message C:\ is not accessible access is denied Location is not available.

I thought this might have something to do with user accounts however I am the only user and administrator of the laptop and have all wrights, box's ticked.

Any help would be great. (what should i look at?)

Thanks

 

[Xttony]

Actually you do not have full access even though you are the administrator.
Right click c drive
Properties
Open security tab
Click on authenticated users, and click on edit
Check full control under allow.

 

[justinbowness15]

Yeah i thought it is user permissions somewhere.

My user account is admin and all boxes are ticked under security but NOT the bottom box "special permissions" which i cannot tick/highlight. Ive tried this under safe mode aswell.

 

[casemods]

I'm also getting a similar problem.....any ideas?

 

[tsarsylox]

hev the similar problem. i followed what has been explained above but i can not find where is written authenticated users. i use windows 7

 

[Xttony]

Right click my computer > manage > local users and groups > right click on administrator > permissions > uncheck disable this account.
Log off and then log in to administrator account
This account has full control over the system.

 

[Zarir]

Its not about permissions . its a virus

Press winkey+ R

type cmd press Enter
go to C:/
Type: attrib autorun.inf -s -h Enter
Type: del autorun.inf ENTER
Type: Exit
I hope that works .
if not Update your antivirus And boot in to safe mode and scan your computer.

 

[Guest]

Its not about permissions . its a virus

Press winkey+ R

type cmd press Enter
go to C:/
Type: attrib autorun.inf -s -h Enter
Type: del autorun.inf ENTER
Type: Exit
I hope that works .
if not Update your antivirus And boot in to safe mode and scan your computer.

 

[Atul Saswat]

Its not about permissions . its a virus

Press winkey+ R

type cmd press Enter
go to C:/
Type: attrib autorun.inf
press enter
Type: del autorun.inf
press enter
Type: Exit
press enter
I hope that works .
if not Update your antivirus And boot in to safe mode and scan your computer.

 

[Sylvanious Roane Jr]

Hello guys,

For some unknown reason i have suddenly started getting the message " location is not available c:\ is not accessible - access is denied "

i have made sure i am the Administrator and in that account.


Any help would be greatly apreciated as i am stuck.

thanks

 

[Sylvanious Roane Jr]

nothing will work - no safemode with networking no command prompts, nothing but F10 will work, boot and press f10 very quickly when loading, type y, and then enter and allow recovery agent to work