I have a hard drive, and it has always worked easily for me before on my windows 7 computer. I tried plugging it in to said computer and it would be visible in D&P (Devices and Printers), but not visible in Computer. I couldn't access the data on it. Through the magic of Google, I found a forum where someone had a similar problem, and somebody told him to add a letter to the drive through diskpart. I named my hard drive A: with no errors or problems.
Now I can see the hard drive in Computer, but I am getting this error: "You don't currently have permission to access this folder. Click Continue to permanently get access to this folder."
When I click Continue, I get this error: "you have been denied permission to access this folder. To gain access to this folder, you will need to use the security tab."
When I click on 'security tab', it brings me to the properties of the drive, but there is no security tab. A similar question has been asked here and here, but for both of those questions, they have access to the security tab, which I don't. Also, it says underneath the drive that it that it has 196 MB free of 196MB. I don't remember exactly how much storage it has, but it has at least 20 gigs, and probably 50-100. It also has some files that I'd rather not lose.
When I run the command promt as an administrator, I can change directories from C: to A:, but when I try to list the contents of A: I get this:
Volume in drive A is EFI
Volume Serial Number is 3F3C-1AF6
directory of A:\
File Not Found
Have I lost all the files and the space on my drive? How can I get access to it again?
EDIT:
More useful information that I have learned since posting this question. A: is listed as EDF under Hard Disk Drives not Devices with Removable Storage as I would expect it to. There is also no eject button when I right click. I went to D&P and ejected it from there, and unplugged it. It is still under Hard Disk Drives, but its name is shown as Local Disk (A:) instead of EDF. When I plugged it back in, it still shows up as Local Disk, and behaves as if it wasn't plugged in. It is still visible in D&P.
Here's how my drives appear in Disk Management:
diskmgmt.msc
. Make sure the window is expanded so we can see all of the columns and items in the volume list, and all of the HDDs (and their partitions) in the lower section. I've got an idea of what your problem (probably) is, but need this information to confirm.diskmgmt.msc
. I will look around for it, but in the mean time, could I have a quick explanation of where it might be/what it does?diskmgmt.msc
It's a Microsoft Management Console plug-in for Disk Management, which is included in Windows.