USB external drive folder problem

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Cazez

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Hi,
I have an external USB drive ( Maxtor 80gb ) I have never had any problems with it but now although I can see all the files and progs on the drive I cannot open any of the files and I get a message " filename on desktop ( Cazez ) is not accessible. Access is denied"
I have tried changing the jumpers but with the same result. Anyone got any ideas on how to solve this?

Thanks
Cazez
 
Re:can't Access Files

HAVE YOU CHECKED THE PARTITION (FDISK)?CAN YOU RUN YOUR UTILITIES
ON THIS DRIVE (DISK DEFRAGMENTER etc.)?
-HAVE YOU TRIED TO PROGRAM YOUR COMPUTER TO BE ON A NETWORK?SO YOU CAN GET THE SHARE OPTION.
-MY CONCLUSION IS THAT THE DRIVE(S) HAS BEEN LOCKED BY AN ALIEN UTILITY.PERHAPS WHEN THE ANTISPYWARE REMOVED THE PROBLEM IT CREATED A LARGER ONE.I HAVE AN NT VOLUME FAT 32 PARTITION THAT WILL NOT OPEN WITH NT ON A FAT 32.HOWEVER IT WILL OPEN WITH WIN98SE ON A FAT 32.IT HAD A BLOWN IP STACK,BOOT SECTOR ERRORS,AND ABOUT 4KB'S
THAT SCANDISK DOES NOT GIVE ME THE OPTION TO REPAIR.IT STILL WILL NOT SHOW ITSELF TO NT.
-after i retrieved the nonreplacable data i repartitioned the disk and formatted.
NOW NT CAN NOW OPEN THE DRIVE.
 
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Hi, I cannot run any files on this drive or access them, I used this disk as a slave on Win Xp Home,then on Vista HE but didnt like that so I reverted back to Win XP Home. I have been through what the other websites tell me to do ( below )
I have followed the guide exactly and it shows I have access to all files as a administrator, but I still cannot access my slave drive with all my files on it. I noticed tho when it asks to deselect the Simple File Sharing,but I dont have this option on my computer at all.

Cazez

Open Explorer, go to Tools and Folder Options, on the view tab, scroll to
the bottom of the list, if it shows "Enable Simple File Sharing" deselect it
and click apply and ok. If it shows nothing or won't let you make a change,
move on to the next step.

Navigate to the files, right click, select properties, go to the Security
tab, click advanced, go to the Owner tab and select the user that was logged
on when you were refused permission to access the files. Click apply and
ok. Close the properties box, reopen it, click add and type in the name of
the user you just enabled. If you wish to set ownership for everything in
the folder, at the bottom of the Owner tab is the following selection:
"Replace owner on subcontainers and objects," select it as well.

Once complete, you should be able to do what you wish with these files when
you log back on as that user.
 
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