Windows 10: E: is not accessible. Access is denied

I have a problem with my computer and I cannot blame Microsoft or the man in the moon or anyone else, sadly it is self-inflicted. I have 2 SSD’s installed in this PC. C is the system drive and E is my back up drive which I use to make regular bootable clones. Additionally I save certain folders to an external USB device. Both drives appear in File Explorer, however when I click on E I get:-

Location is not available
E:\ is not accessible
Access is denied

I suspect this happened after I ran sfc/chkdsk on the E drive earlier today…

The E drive appears on the Disk Management screen and tells me that the partitions are healthy… I suspect this problem is related to permissions but I’m at a loss on how to proceed. This does not affect the running of the computer but I’d obviously like to get things back to normal. Any help would be welcome – and I promise to be more careful next time !

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E: not accessible - access is denied (win 10)

Suddenly I am not able to access E: using file explorer and all the apps that are in those folder are also inaccessible

It first started with E: not accessible - File or Directory is corrupt and unreadable. I ran chkdsk and fixed some records.

When I tried accessing the drive again it gave access is denied error. However I checked the ownership and permissions everything works. I thought I will have to do down data recovery path.

However, i open powershell in admin mode. And when I switched to E: it worked!!! I am taking backup immediately as protection

So now i can access E: in powershell but from file explorer I can still not access the drive and none of the files/apps in that folder are to be seen outside of powershell. What's the next step here?

 

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Thanks.

After following the steps suggested, I get the message "Access denied" in command prompt.

Please advise how to allow permission.