Learn how to fix external hard drisk access denied error. To recover data from external hard disk, you can use this tool to help: https://bit.ly/3YAuVVh

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Video Intro 00:00
Main Reasons for Drive Becomes Not Accessible 00:28
Method 1: Take the Ownership of the inaccessible hard drive 00:44
Method 2: Try to start your PC into Safe mode 01:14
Method 3: Change the drive letter of the inaccessible drive 01:50
Method 4: Update or Uninstall old disk drivers 02:13
Method 5: Run CHKDSK command to fix disk errors 02:44
Method 6: Format hard disk and recover lost data using 4DDiG 03:10

Method 1: Take the Ownership of the inaccessible hard drive

When your external hard drive displays the “The drive is inaccessible. That means you don’t have the correct privilege settings in Windows. To fix the issue, you need to take ownership. Here’s how to do that.

Go to This PC and Right click the inaccessible hard drive and choose properties. Navigate to Security tab and click on advance. Now modify the ownership by typing PC name and follow the on screen commands. If this method doesn’t work for you then move to next solution.

Method 2: Try to start your PC into Safe mode

Safe mode starts Windows in a basic state, which would stop unnecessary programs to launch. So, you can try to access your hard drive in Safe mode. Here’s how to enter safe mode.

Open settings from start and select Update and Security, navigate to recovery. Under advance startup select restart now.

After your PC restarts to the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot – Advanced options – Startup Settings – Restart. After that you’ll see a list of options, simply press F8 to start your PC in Safe Mode. Then try to open your hard drive again.

Method 3: Change the drive letter of the inaccessible drive

Changing the drive letter of inaccessible drive can help us to solve the issue. Here’s how to do that using disk management.
Right-click the Start Button and click on Disk Management. Find and right-click on the faulty disk drive. Now choose /”Change Drive Letter and Paths” On the new window select the drive letter you need to give to your existing external hard drive and click okay.

Method 4: Update or Uninstall old disk drivers

Updating the driver may also help you to fix drive is not accessible error. You can update or uninstall old disk drivers using Device Manager. Search /”Device Manager,/” in the search bar and open it. Expand categories to find the name of your Hard Drive, and simply right-click on it. Now, choose /”Update Driver/” from the drop-down list and select the /”Search automatically for updated driver software/” option. Now your system will search and install a new driver update for you.

Method 5: Run CHKDSK command to fix disk errors

CHKDSK is a disk error checking tool to fix disk errors. First connect hard drive to your system and open command prompt as administrator. Now type this following command. “chkdsk D: /f /r” (H is the drive letter, which shows the “drive is not accessible” error.)

Now try to open your hard drive, if you’re still facing the issue, last solution is to format the hard drive to reuse it again.

Method 6: Format hard disk and recover lost data using 4DDiG

You can format an external hard drive using This PC, but if you format hard drive you will lost all your important data on it. So in this case first you should use a professional data recovery tool to recover all your important data from your external hard drive.

Tenorshare 4DDiG is a professional data recovery software that can recover any formatted, deleted, lost, corrupt, or damaged files from Windows, Mac, SD card, USB flash drives, external devices, digital cameras, and more. It supports 1000+ data types including photos, videos, audio, documents, and more with simply 3 steps.
 
To recover data from not accessible hard drive with 4DDiG, download and install the program on your system and launch the software. Now select an not accessible hard drive and click Scan to proceed. Then select the target file types to scan.

Now, 4DDiG will start scanning the Hard Drive to find lost files. After the scanning, you can choose files to preview and then click Recover to save them to a different partition.

After recovering your important data using Tenorshare 4DDiG, now you can format hard drive using This PC.

Hopefully, you can able to fix not accessible hard drive using this six methods.

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