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Access Denied for my "C" drive
I have a hard drive that has gone on the blink. It began having
problems as a result of so many spywares that downloaded onto my system. My computer began to take longer and longer to boot-up. Finally, nothing was working as it should. I have since cleaned my system of its spyware using SpyBot to delete them. Since then I cannot access my C drive. I have access to my D drive and have installed my operating symptom on it so as to be able to access my Hard Drive. After installing Windows on my D drive I checked "my computer" icon to see if it recognized my C and D drives and it does. I have icons for my C and D drives. However, when I do a "properties" for the C drive, I do not get any information as to the size, number of files or anything else. Also, the properties icon shows that I have no free space and if I try and open my C drive, it gives me an "access denied" error. When I do a "properties" check on my D drive I can see the amount of space used, free space available, total number of files, and the size of the D drive. When I do a Nortons Antivirus scans it will list my files as it is scanning them on the C drive. Also, I used Nortons disk doctor and it does recognize my C drive. In the process I told it to correct some errors and it tells me it made the corrections. Afterwards I attempt to access C drive and I still get the error message "Access Denied." Can anyone tell me what has happened to my C drive? Why are my files hidden from me? Why can't I access my C drive? What can I do to correct what ever problem I am having? And how can I gain access to my C drive files? Carlos |
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goto start bar/control panel/administrativ tools/ computer management,
under storage/disk management you will see all drives your computer detects. From here you should be able to do the basic disk management. If recovery doesn't work I suggest you simply format your drive, but if you have vital information on the drive I would sugest that you find a third party data recovery tool to retrive the data (the data must be stored on a different drive) and then format the drive. Simplest is allways the best solution. Hope this helps a little. |
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