Recovered Hard Disk Data Post ‘Access Denied’ Error

Recovered Hard Disk Data Post ‘Access Denied’ Error

This is a guest post by Anand Vyas

Last Sunday, I visited one of my college friends after a long time. After talking for sometime, she showed me her laptop which she had bought recently. I was amazed to see wonderful features of Windows 7 in her new laptop. The speech, handwriting, and touch recognition features, compatibility with various file formats, support for virtual file formats, etc wondered me so much that I thought to switch to Windows 7 from Windows XP. But, we cannot control technology flaws as while upgrading from to Windows 7, something went wrong and I lost some of my really precious files saved on the secondary partition of my computer. But, I am very thankful to the latest technology for developing hard disk recovery software by which I recovered all my precious files intact.

However, before I was aware of third-party hard disk data recovery tools, I went into the state of shock for sometime just like anyone who is unaware of these ultimate utilities. Let me narrate the whole incident in detail. I was having Windows XP on my laptop which had two partitions as C: primary partition that contained Windows and D: the secondary partition which I used to store all my data. To upgrade to Windows 7, I decided to perform clean installation on the primary partition of my laptop i.e. on C. Thus, I took the backup of entire data of C on my pen drive expecting that all the data on D partition would remain intact.

Thus, after successful installation of Windows 7, I restarted my computer and tried to access partition D. Alas! To my dismay, partition D was no longer accessible. Though I could see partition D at ‘My Computer’ but could not access it instead getting the below mentioned error message, when accessing it:

“Access Denied – Drive Not Accessible”

Worried, I searched over the internet from my brother’s laptop and found that I could use the below mentioned command on the elevated command prompt of computer to fix this issue:

“takeown /f drive_name:\ /R /D Y”

Where, the drive_name is replaced with the letter of the affected drive such as I used C here. But, this solution didn’t work and I learnt that this problem also occurs due to partition table corruption. And in that case, I needed to delete the corrupted partition and restore data from updated backup. Since, I was not having the backup of D drive but to make it accessible I needed to delete it thus, I again searched for the internet for some hard disk recovery software by which I could recover all the data which would lost due to deletion of partition. My search for hard disk data recovery software stopped when I learned about Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software.

Thus, I deleted the corrupt partition and through this efficient data recovery tool, I recovered all my data in just few clicks. This software is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000 operating systems.