Windows 7 : Local disk F:/ access denied

[rahul1992]

Hello sir/madam
i have windows 7 64 bit home premium dell laptop. Recently i am having some problem regarding the local disk F:/. I don't have any idea from where this drive originate and it's showing 0 bytes as disk space and whenever i am entering a CD no CD drive is coming and on autoplay following message is showing : F:/ drive access denied. I have reinstalled cd drivers from dell website but it's not helping. It would grateful of you if you will help me.

 

[TheCyberMan]

Please try this go to start>control panel>administrative tasks>Computer management>Disk management

Right click CD drive and choose properties>driver tab click on uninstall, then go back to Disk management got to action menu choose re-scan disks it will re-add drive and see if your issue has gone.

 

[rahul1992]

Thecyberman, i followed what you when i re-scan disks cd drive reappears but as soon as i entered a cd it again appears as a local disk with access denied. There is UDF written below the drive.

 

[TheCyberMan]

Can you please post a screenshot of computer with the drive showing please?

 

[Ztruker]

Post a snapshot of Disk Management:

To open Disk Management, press Windows key+r, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter or click GO. Make it full screen.

See here: How to Use the Snipping Tool in Vista - Vista Forums (says it's for Vista but also works with Win 7).

Once you have the image saved, click on the Paperclip Icon next to the Smiley Icon.
In the Manage Attachments window, click Browse and navigate to where you saved the image and select it.
Click the Upload button.
Close the Manage Attachments window.
Click on the Paperclip Icon again and select the image you uploaded. It will be placed in your post.

 

[rahul1992]

thecyberman and zturker thanks for the reply, this is the snapshot of disk management window

 

[rahul1992]

and here is the snapshot of computer with drives

 

[TheCyberMan]

It is listing drive F as a Local Disk so is not the CD/DVD drive but another partition of your hard drive.

Have you or someone else created this drive? adjusting the user permissions should recitify this. See guide below and step 4 is the one you need to do and add your user account if a standard user account set permissions Read and Execute and List Folder Contents and Read permssions and click apply and ok and ok again.

To access the F drive right click on it choose properties>security tab then follow instructions.

Users and Permissions

 

[rahul1992]

it is showing as a local disk on my computer but whenever i am inserting a CD this F:/ drive converts into CD drive but its access is denied and it's also not showing on disk management.

 

[TheCyberMan]

Did you follow my advice in my last post?

Also can you post a screenshot of device manager with the DVD drive expanded and opened under general please?

 

[rahul1992]

yes cyber man i followed your instructions but on clicking the security tab following windows showed up

and here is the snapshot of device manager dvd drive expanded and opened under general

 

[TheCyberMan]

You will have to log on as an administrator to view the security permissions or provide credentials for the administrator if you were prompted to do so.

The DVD drive looks ok from device manager does not seem like any problems there.