Windows 10: Access denied when attempting to write to ESATA drive after updating Windows 10 Enterprise

After a very recent under-the-covers update to my Windows 10 OS, I no longer have write access to my ESATA drive. I can execute and read files on the drive; I just can't update or delete them or write new files. I get "Access is denied." when attempting 'write' actions.


I've gone through a lot of troubleshooting articles. Originally the owner of the root folder was set to SYSTEM. I changed it to the Administrators group, selecting 'replace all child object permission entries...' (which ran a really long time).


After that, I checked my effective access to the root folder and it shows green check next to everything. I am member of the Administrators group.


Here is the information from diskpart for the disk and volume:


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Disk 0 is now the selected disk.


DISKPART> attribute disk

Current Read-only State : No

Read-only : No

Boot Disk : No

Pagefile Disk : No

Hibernation File Disk : No

Crashdump Disk : No

Clustered Disk : No


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Volume 1 is the selected volume.


DISKPART> attribute volume

Read-only : No

Hidden : No

No Default Drive Letter: No

Shadow Copy : No


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This is a quasi-corporately managed workstation if that makes any difference. Last year they pushed out an update that prevented us from writing to USB devices. Could they have figured out how to do the same thing for ESATA drives? With the USB devices though, you can clearly see that they are marked as read-only in the OS.


Or perhaps they've managed to figure out how to prevent you from writing to a drive that that doesn't use bitlocker? All my internal drives use bitlocker, but this ESATA drive does not.


I'm at a loss. Can anyone help?


I'm running Windows 10 Enterprise, 1903.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

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