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External Hard Drive changed name by computer

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by phila_eagles

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I have an 80GB Maxtor external HD, that was my picture/music/Back-up drive. A few days ago I started up my computer & my system is reading the drive as Local Disk(G:), but it used to read it as BACK-UP(G:). That means my computer has changed the name of the drive & it will not allow me access to the drive or to access any files on it.
I would love ANY help to this problem, before I spend the $$$ on a data recovery service!!
Thanx

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by ic-it

Right-Click on the drive, select Properties, Choose the Security Tab, Advanced Button, Select the Owner Tab, Highlight either Administrators or your user name. Make sure the replace owner on subcontainers and folders is checked and then choose ok. It will take a few minutes and then you will have access back.

by r.reichert

I have the IDENTICAL problem as bwilmot. He could not have described my situation more precisely. I am trying to follow your clear instructions but when I right click on the drive and select Properties...Only five tabs appear, GENERAL, AUTOPLAY,TOOLS, HARDWARE, and SHARING. Do you have a suggestion? Thanks so much. Richard

by ic-it

Open an explorer window (not IE). On the menu bar, select Tools - Folder Options - View tab, scroll to the bottom and Uncheck the Use Simple File Sharing.

P.S. I don't have the problem, ;-) phila_eagles does or did.

by r.reichert

The Use Simple File Sharing option does not appear on my computer. I moved the problem external drive to another computer and the option was there. I followed your steps and the computer took its time to take ownership of the files of the base computer but did not do anything with the external drive.
I don't know what to do next. Sorry about the slip up. Right... you are the solution man, not the man with the problem like the rest of us.
Richard

by r.reichert

When I follow your procedure it DOES give me a security tab on the properties of the C drive but does not change the properties options for the External drive to give me a security tab. Richard

by r.reichert

I run XP. I ran the right click Properties Tools option to Error-Checking of the external drive and it completed the checkdisk and said it was done. No message other than completed.

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