A friend said one of his external drives he can no longer access. I volunteered to check it out. I connect it to my desktop (it is a USB 3.0 Seagate drive). My Win10 computer detects it, loads the drivers. It shows up as drive F:. But when I try to open it, I get "Access Denied". Disk Management shows the drive as Healthy, Active. I've done Chkdsk, it runs and finds no problems. I did a Malwarebytes scan, it scans the drive, it shows all the filenames of the photos and stuff stored on there as it is scanning. But Windows itself refuses to let me open the drive. My friend can't open it on his laptop. I tried it on my laptop, still won't open. I'm stumped as to why we can't access this drive. I asked my friend if it was password protected and he said no, he never installed any type of security on it. It is formatted NTFS, as all my friends family photos and such, so he doesn't want to format or delete the partition.
Other external drives open normally, just this one won't. I'm stumped.
TL;DR: external drive shows connected, has drive letter, active/healthy, but attempts to open it are "Access Denied"
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