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External HardDrive permissions corrupted

Hello, I recently found my old Hard disk and wanted to access its Users folder but it wouldn't allow me to. I tried taking ownership but there were some I/O error so it cancelled. I tried again but now the users folder won't open, it's taking a lot of time to load suddenly and whenever I try right clicking the folder, my laptop shows not responding. I can't do anything. Please Help

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This doesn't answer my Solution. I have this issue in an External HDD

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Hi @NishitAgrawal-1840

Open a command prompt (admin) and type:

takeown /f X:\ /r     (substitute X with your drive's letter)

icacls X:\ /grant everyone:f /c /t

Wait for the commands to complete.

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The first command ran successfully but the second command showed this for the Users folder:

D:\Users - This request could not be performed because of an I/O Device error.

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Spigolo-3573 answered

@NishitAgrawal-1840

I'm sorry but this is an evidence of disk failure.
You might try to low level formatting, but data on it are gone.

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MotoX80 answered

I'd start with running a chkdsk.

 chkdsk X: /f


Next look for a vendor tool that can check for hardware errors. Like this for Western Digital.

https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?FW&lang=en&family=wdsmartware

If you don't have any uncorrectable hardware errors then verify permissions.

 icacls X:\ /verify /t

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