Permissions need to be set, not only under 'Sharing', but more importantly, 'Security' / 'Advanced'.
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The problem IS, after all, 'Permissions'. Now, I've come across many "solutions" but since I don't want to make things worse, I rather wait for your feedback before proceeding doing the following: It seems that the chkdsk command deleted some files :/ because I cannot open a certain folder nevertheless, the most important files are safe! Just now, I booted in safe mode and voila! I CAN access my external hard drive :D.
#WD MY BOOK EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE DRIVE LETTER WINDOWS 7#
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I have tried to take ownership of my HDD (probably I didn't do it right, if recommend this please explain (: ).This is so far what I've done (in chronological order): I googled now about this same problem and I was very scared because I kept reading other people's problem that maybe the hard drive had died or all data was lost, etc. The storage information would not show up either. This pop-up would say "I:\ is not accessible. Then later on that day I had the same problem and I performed again theĮrror-checking tool process but this time I noticed it took longer!Įven though my Western Digital 1TB external hard drive was/is visible (icon) in Explorer, I could not access/open it. I googled for some answers to my problem and I kept reading about the error-checking tool (Properties > Tools > Check Now) so I performed that. Then yesterday the same thing happened but now this time I could not delete or create any folder inside My simple solution at first was to unplug and plug back my external HDD (via USB 2.0) and everything would be OK (songs would play correctly). When I put some songs to play on VLC it would instead play a video which I have somewhere in my external hard drive as well but in a complete different folder location. Two days I ago I started to notice that some songs wouldn't play half way through or sometimes
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For the past week I have been doing nothing but only tagging my music files which I have in my Western Digital 1TB HDD.