Windows 10: Access denied when accessing USB drive, after Windows 11 update, tried changing group...

Unable to access any device connected through USB!Access denied message pops up!Have tried everything possible from changing regedit to administrative system policies but nothin works.Same device is working on another systemNEED HELP!!!!

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Access denied for internal secondary drive

Hi All,

I have a laptop running windows 10. A few weeks ago it started coming up with an error message on startup about recycle bin is corrupt on D:\ (my secondary drive). I now get access denied whenever I try to open the files/folders on the drive and am losing
will to live as this drive has all of my work and family photo's etc... on.

• I have downloaded the take ownership tool and it is saying access denied.
• Tried changing the drive owner on security and it wont let me as it says access denied (current owner is listed as SYSTEM).
• Tried changing the security groups and privileges and it won't let me, access denied.
• Admin has full control privileges and so I enabled the windows admin account (net user administrator /active:yes) and logged in but that still says access denied. My account is also an admin account but still access denied.
• Tried switching onedrive off as heard that can cause an issue and no luck.
• Tried using local account rather than Microsoft account and still access denied.
• Tried a reset of the PC, still no luck

I really am at a loss now and don't really want to have to take it to a computer shop to get them to try and retrieve.

The laptop was originally on windows 7 but upgraded to windows 10 fine. I am struggling as cannot find any other solutions on the internet, anyone go any ideas.

Cheers

Will

 

USB Denied Access

I am running windows 10 and have a 32 bit OS, I can't get access to my usb ports. The error message says I'm denied access. I have tied various USB drives in the ports and none work. I have tried the drives on other computers and they work fine. How
do I fix this? At one point everything worked.

 

Suddenly unable to access USB Drive

I have had this USB drive for1 year, it has been formatted and I have been using it daily. Suddenly this morning, I plug it in, click on it to open and it says"

"F.:\is not accessible. Access is denied". I went through all of the processes to check the Security......

"You must have Read permissions to view the properties of this object" I click Advance and I see " F:\\ Unable to display Owner"

I continue the steps to change: Owner/Aministrator/ Owner/ Authenticated users (I tried all of these individually),

A message pops up, I don't have "access to read files.....Do you want to change to have full access?"

I click "yes" it processes and says "F:\System Volume Information " " Failed to enumerate objects in the container. Access denied" ....

Not knowing what else to do I click "Ok" it says if I have just taken ownership, close out and reopen to take effect.

As I clocse out, I see that it has changed to F:\\ Owner....

I check the "Effective Access" tab everything is checked, I appear to have access. I close out totally, even reboot the computer.

Go to the USB DRIVE and "

F.:\is not accessible. Access is denied"

I am at a loss. I have other drives that I have checked, their access is open. The only difference I see is that the trouble drive is "F" and the other is "E". No matter where I port it, it is always up as "F".

One person suggested to change that, but I don't know how that is possible and doesn't explain what happened that I am now unable to access this particular drive.

Does anyone have ANY ideas as to what the problem could be? It makes no sense that there should so many steps to change something that was fine yesterday.