Asked By
Trott
820 points
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Posted on - 06/05/2011
I have never faced such kind of wired problems.
I am running windows XP on my desktop pc and there four partitions on the hard disk.
In my F drive I can’t modify such as delete, rename or cut any files or data but can copy file to the other drive.
When I press the delete button to delete any files it’s showing an access denied message.
I am having no problems in the other partition. Is this a very bad sign for my hard disk?
Is it going to crash within a short period of time?
What to do?
Should I replace the hard disk?
Answered By
john.us
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#111199
Specific drive could not be modified
Hello Trott,
In answering your question I should say you won't have to worry at all.
This could be happen about a matter that is related with the permission setting. You could check the permission setting by going to Start > Run > type " gpedit.msc " and hit enter. There are several settings that you need to check related to hard disk permission setting. If you can change there its okay. but if not, then it must be due to a virus.
In this case you can totally delete all logical drives along with C drive and Partition the hard disk newly.
Than you can enjoy your hard disk as a new one.
But be careful, before doing that please take the backup of your important files.
Enjoy it !
Specific drive could not be modified
My dear,
I will suggest you to run a “ disk checker “ on your drive and also a Defragmenter on your drive may be it is locked by some registry value or by some kind of VIRUS. So you have to run a full virus scan also on this disk.
To unlock your drive you can just use unlocking tools and programs and your drive will work fine.
To make a disk defragment go to START and ALL PROGRAMS then select ACCESSORIES and go to SYSTEM TOOLS and select Disk Defragmenter.
Now when you have to do these make shore you have almost 25% free disk space on your drive?
To make a fdisk go to START and select RUN and type cmd then in new window type fdisk.
It will check your disk from errors.
Specific drive could not be modified
If you keep having this problem on your drive, try using first the System File Checker utility. Press the Windows key then type without quotes “cmd” in the search field. Right-click “cmd.exe” in the search results then select “Run as administrator” to launch an elevated command prompt. In the command prompt window, type the following command then hit Enter:
sfc /scannow
Insert your Windows installation CD or DVD when you are prompted then continue. Wait until the process is complete. When it is finished, close the command prompt then restart the computer. If this doesn’t work, try downloading PC Tools Performance Toolkit and install. Once installed, start PC Tools then go to “Recovery” tab and click “Repair Drives.”
On the next screen, select the drive you want to check. From the options, select “Surface Scan” and check “Perform on reboot.” Click “Start” then “Continue.” Exit PC Tools then restart the computer to begin the check. The checking will be quite long depending on the size of the drive and the extent of the problem.
If bad sectors were found, try repeating the scan a second time. Bad sectors are normal for hard drives and usually appear as the drive gets older. If bad sectors appear everywhere on the drive and the drive is quite old, it means you need to replace the drive with a new one.
You can also check the partition structure of your drive for errors. After clicking “Repair Drives” in PC Tools, select “Check Partition Structure” in the options then click “Start.” This will check all the partitions on the drive for errors. If you need to partition your drive, you can use EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition.
