Please help, I've tried searching in the past threads for my problem and i have yet to find it? Here it goes I have 2 hard drives connected( not on the same IDE cable, they on thier own), anyway my master drive (c.) has all my operating system and software, my slave drive (E.) has all my junk files pictures, videos ( of my kids growing up through the years). I went to go access my slave ( E. drive) to burn some of the video's but i got an error message....E:\ not accessible ... access denied. I ran a virus scan on my slave ( E. drive) and had no virus's? Do i have any options or am S.O.L.?
Any help to retrieve these files would be greatly apperciated
Thanks in advance
Crusher3
I forgot to mention that both drives are pinned with cable select on thier own IDE ribbon tape. I don't want to lose these files somone suggested i reformat the drive and start fresh, i can't i would lose the pic's and viseos.
I can open my E:\ slave drive but when i go to open the folder with the picts i get that error message( as a matter of fact i get this message on any folder in this drive)
Its a western digital 45 Gig anf i only have less than 1 Gig of open space.
Thanks again
Crusher
As long as the drive is spinning you can probably recover all your data. If it was working before, and then just all of a sudden gave you that message. You might have had a improper shutdown which corrupted some files. (if the drive shows up as "raw" in disk management, thats a sign of file corruption). A simple chkdsk e:/f can fix that (also you can do a scandisk with box to fix errors checked).
You can also try and just jumper your slave drive, instead of using cable select. Another thing you can do is remove the hard drive and stick it in an external usb enclosure and see if you can read it from there.
Since you did a virus scan, and it checked good, that means your hard drive is working. All the data is still there.
Do not "format" the drive, currently theres a 99 percent chance you can recover everything on there. If you reformat theres a zero chance to recover anything.
If you tried everything to get it to work with no success, you can try and use the free "testdisk" to recover your data. It has an addon called "photorec" that is the recovery program. It'll recover without damaging the hard drive.
I having no luck trying to access these files on this hard drive? I know my way around the hardware aspect of PC's but when it comes to the software side i tend to get a little frustated when i can't figure this out. I tried jumping my slave drive, instead of using cable select and i had no luck.
I also tried the free "testdisk" to recover my data. It has an addon called "photorec" that is the recovery program and i had no luck???? i tried following the steps but had no such luck? There has to be something i can do to get into these hard drive? I guess i forgot to mention that this drive does have a partion on it.
Please help??
Thanks
Just to clarify, you have a disc, it appears to be being recognised by your operating system, you can see the folders in the root of it (E:\)but you cannot access any of them, and get a 'E:\ not accessible ... access denied' when you try.
I assume you are running windows. In disc management (START>RUN>DISKMGMT.MSC) is you disk, its partitons and file system correctly recognised?
From all you have said, and all the thing you have tried i suspect there is nothing physically wrong with the disk.
