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Offline Nate H

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USB Access issues
« on: April 27, 2021, 12:02:41 pm »
Please forgive me, my technical expertise in these matters has no depth!? For a few months now, for reasons I cannot fathom, when I plug in either a USB flash pen or external hard the item will show as normal as being available for use. However, within a very short period of time I will get an 'Access Denied: You do not have permission to access this drive.'  message!? :shocked:  Friends have previously directed me to CMD prompt entries, and even with some of these I am told I do not have permission, even though I am the main Administrative Account on my own laptop, with no other users. My questions are, as this is only a fairly recent issue, and I always had normal 'access' to any drive I might plug into my machine, is this software able to restore that permission and access back please? And if so, do I require the free or Pro option to attain this?? Thank you for kindly taking the time to read my problem.

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Re: USB Access issues
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2021, 02:59:24 pm »
You get the same repairs with free or Pro version of Windows Repair.

I recently had an occasion to reset the Permissions on this machine and it worked fine after.

I only ran the Permission repairs.

If you wish to create a restore point first, then do that manually before booting to Safe Mode.

You cannot create restore points in Safe Mode and WR doesn't physically create a restore point even though it reports it has.

Shane is currently working on this.

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Re: USB Access issues
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2021, 01:00:42 am »
Thank you so much Tom, I really appreciate the reply

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Re: USB Access issues
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2021, 02:03:03 am »
You're welcome :)

Did resetting the Permissions resolve ?