Need help getting windows to access a hard drive

[1776]

Hi guys, I had a drive I was using in an externl USB case on my work computer.

I brought it home, took it out of the USB case, and installed it in my home PC.


It shows up in disk managment in windows:

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4790/disktrouble1az5.jpg

and it shows up as drive letter i: in "my computer"

but when I double click on it, I get a message saying "access denied"

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5156/disktrouble2pu0.jpg

Any ideas on what the trouble is? This drive worked perfectly in the USB enclosure at work.

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

does it work as a USB at home?

What o/s are you running? Get SP2 if you don't.. I had a problem where I could not get a hard drive to read until I upgraded to sp2.

 

[1776]

I have winXP with sp2 installed.

I can't test it as a usb drive at home, I don't have the enclosure any more.

 

[1776]

It should work since it's showing up in the disk managment program. It even shows it as having NTFS file system on it.

argh...

 

[Bozo Galora]

you could d/l and burn a Knoppix or Ubuntu Live CD iso and transfer your stuff to another HDD

your boot.ini is no longer relevant to current config - the USB HDD was active. (Was it primary - booting??)
you need to delineate here ALL drive letters where your O/S was and what drives were active primary extended/logical BEFORE UNPLUG!!
Note here (scroll down) USB HDD only shows "Healthy", not "Active"
http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/usb_hard-drive.html
WinXP has no way to actively redo boot.ini or ntldr, ntdetect as you make major changes like removing an external HDD.

This MAY do the trick.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185301251

 

[1776]

Was it primary - booting??

No, the drive was never set up to boot off of, just to store data on.

 

[1776]

For the benefit of anyone coming across this thread in the future, problem solved via


1. Going into tools->folder options->view tab
go way to the bottom and disable "use simple file sharing"

then

2. Right click on the drive and go to security. Click advanced and take ownership of the files.


Thanks!