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Can't Access Any External Media

  • 10-03-2012 7:15pm
    #1
    Jim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey all,

    Currently having a problem with my laptop where I can't access any external media. DvD Drive, External HDs, External Flash Drives etc. Tried all and they all give me the error "Access Denied". With the DvD Drive when I try to eject it it says it can't because it's in use. Tried restarting my laptop but that made no difference. Only thing I could think of is malware but I've run one anti virus and two malware scans and they turned up nothing. This specific problem isn't the easiest to google heh.

    Any suggestions? Running Win 7.


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  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Probably a drive letter conflict. Go into Start>Right Click on Computer>Manage. Now click on Disk Management and change each problematic drives letter. You can do this by right clicking the drive and change letters. If you installed anything to another drive such as D:\ for e.g and change the letter you will need to update shortcuts pointing to the drive.

    Nick

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  • #3
    Jim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    yoyo wrote: »
    Probably a drive letter conflict. Go into Start>Right Click on Computer>Manage. Now click on Disk Management and change each problematic drives letter. You can do this by right clicking the drive and change letters. If you installed anything to another drive such as D:\ for e.g and change the letter you will need to update shortcuts pointing to the drive.

    Nick
    Tried this earlier but didn't work either :/


  • #4
    yoyo
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    Jim wrote: »
    Tried this earlier but didn't work either :/
    Try This. May help :)

    Nick

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  • #5
    Jim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    yoyo wrote: »
    Try This. May help :)

    Nick
    Found the entry but there's no Lower or Upper Filters.


  • #6
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Its quite possible there is something running on the machine conflicting with Windows drive lettering. What anti virus/internet security software are you using? Also what CD/DVD burner software do you use?

    Nick

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  • #7
    Jim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    McAfee Enterprise. Don't have any burning software. Last time I used an external drive was about 2 weeks ago, everything worked fine then. Can't think of any programs I've installed since then.


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