Vista Administrator has "access denied" to 2nd hard drive?

[markymark7717]

Well trying to secure some files on a 2nd drive (D drive). I had set
it up to block access to everyone but me (the administrator). Now even
while logged on as the administrator I can't access the files on the
drive. I get a message " D:\ is not accessible", "Access is
denied"?????? What is up with that? So I tried to do a system restore
but without getting into pointless details on that, it didn't work. So
Trying to change the D drive security settings back to default I go
into Properties, Security, advanced, everything appears to look good
as the administrator is set to have "full control" of the drive. I
tried a few other logical options on there but nothing has
changed.Administrator is still denied access. So now that logic
doesn't work, what now?

 

[MC360]

Well trying to secure some files on a 2nd drive (D drive). I had set
it up to block access to everyone but me (the administrator). Now even
while logged on as the administrator I can't access the files on the
drive. I get a message " D:\ is not accessible", "Access is
denied"?????? What is up with that? So I tried to do a system restore
but without getting into pointless details on that, it didn't work. So
Trying to change the D drive security settings back to default I go
into Properties, Security, advanced, everything appears to look good
as the administrator is set to have "full control" of the drive. I
tried a few other logical options on there but nothing has
changed.Administrator is still denied access. So now that logic
doesn't work, what now?

Update...I tried logging in as God but thats still doesn't give me the
authority to change anything.

 

[TCT]

I'm having the exact same problem. Did you find a solution???

 

[Russellz]

I have a similar problem with Windows/XP.

If I select 'My Computer' and double click the second hard drive I get
"Access Denied". I can't find the blocker. No problem with the first hard
drive.

However, if I select 'Start', 'Run' and 'Browse', I can browse the drive
easily. Also, no problem if I access from an application such as Word or if I
access from the network.

 

[MC360]

I'm having the exact same problem. Did you find a solution???

Well......I have restored access to "D drive". The solution......no
clue. I haven't done anything I didn't try before. Actually I had
given up on it for a while but decided one day to see if more
repetitive tinkering would end in the same failure as before...this
time it WORKED!!!!! Why it worked this time and not the 20 previouse
attempts I can not say. For something that should be pretty straight
fwd & logical...my gut feeling is that its a Vista issue. Perhaps one
of the recent updates solved the problem? conclusion....No clue.

 

[MC360]

Well......I have restored access to "D drive". The solution......no
clue. I haven't done anything I didn't try before. Actually I had
given up on it for a while but decided one day to see if more
repetitive tinkering would end in the same failure as before...this
time it WORKED!!!!! Why it worked this time and not the 20 previouse
attempts I can not say. For something that should be pretty straight
fwd & logical...my gut feeling is that its a Vista issue. Perhaps one
of the recent updates solved the problem? conclusion....No clue.

Oh...as I play this Vista game once more....I am now once again denied
access to drive D, which I had full access to for the last 4 days now,
including this morning. So back to more pointless tinkering and
waisting my time with Vista issues since they wont just fix
themselves...do they?

 

[MC360]

I'm having the exact same problem. Did you find a solution???

Well...I found a solution to the problem. Disable the User Account
Control (UAC) feature.See the attached link for details. Not the
perfect fix but its a start.
http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm

 

[LadyDaisy]

I finally just turned of UAC. I could not even delete my own favorite
folders I had made myself or organize them.

 

[Dan Wakeman]

I found this to be true with Windows Server 2008 R2 also. R2 defaults to UAC enabled. R1 did not. The dialog box text gives no indication at all that UAC is involved. It just says "access denied" so every reasonable IT person looks at security and permissions. Turn off User Access Control. A reboot is required.

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I figured the 2008R2 relation was worthwhile.

 

[cowit]

We ran into the same problem, but only on Server 08 R2. Our servers are running virtual on VMware. One of our Group Policy was causing the issue. Computer/System/Removable Storage Access- Removable Disks: Deny Execute Access. Once we set this object to not configured. The issue ended. It appears that Server 08, (now I can only confirm in virtual environment) sees the second HD as an external disk. This also affected Windows updates downloaded from the update site that needed to be extracted locally. By default windows will extract to the HD with the most free space. In this case our second HD. We found the temp folder created by the extraction had no security settings on it.
Hope this helps

Dave