Vista giving access denied to 2nd hard drive

[pl8er]

I have a bit of a problem with my 2nd hard drive. I just installed vista ultimate and when I try to open my 2nd drive it says access denied. I have checked the permissions, and set it full access to everyone, but still nothing. It sees the files when I set the permissions to everyone (they all showed while it was going through them) but in computer, it shows 0 mb free.

I'm stumped. Anyone have a solution for this?

Thanks!

PC stats:

AMD X2 4800
2gb Corsair XMS
36 Raptor
300 Seagate storage drive
MSI ms-7100 Platinum SLI mobo
7900GT


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mechBgon

 

[pl8er]

Well right after typing that I figured it out. I figure I will just post the solution to help anyone else searching.

The drive was not working because the UAC (user account control) was active. By turning this off I was able to read the hard drive. Guess windows was preventing access to the drive to protect me, strange.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: pl8er
Well right after typing that I figured it out. I figure I will just post the solution to help anyone else searching.

The drive was not working because the UAC (user account control) was active. By turning this off I was able to read the hard drive. Guess windows was preventing access to the drive to protect me, strange.

Try taking Ownership of the drive's contents, then re-enable UAC and see if you're good. UAC has real value for both security and functionality reasons, so if you can solve the problem another way, consider leaving it enabled.

 

[Nothinman]

UAC has real value for both security and functionality reasons, so if you can solve the problem another way, consider leaving it enabled.

Look on the bright side, with so many people fighting with UAC maybe they'll start leaving the other Windows security things, like the firewall, alone. =)

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

UAC has real value for both security and functionality reasons, so if you can solve the problem another way, consider leaving it enabled.

Look on the bright side, with so many people fighting with UAC maybe they'll start leaving the other Windows security things, like the firewall, alone. =)

LOL! Sort of a red-herring effect?

 

[Nothinman]

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Originally posted by: Nothinman

UAC has real value for both security and functionality reasons, so if you can solve the problem another way, consider leaving it enabled.

Look on the bright side, with so many people fighting with UAC maybe they'll start leaving the other Windows security things, like the firewall, alone. =)

LOL! Sort of a red-herring effect?

One can only hope =)