How to Eliminate 'Access Denied' when copying files? Greetings! My WD Passort has started giving me 'Access Denied' messages and I am unable to save files from my office PC to my Passport (still works on home pc.) I get the message "Access Denied". I can not even 'Save As' to my Passport from office pc. What happened? I used to have no problem at all. There have been no equipment changes to any of the pc's my Passport is used on. They all run Windows XP but I can only find Vista or Mac instructions online for resolving this issue. Any help is appreciated! How to Eliminate 'Access Denied' when copying files? Greetings! My WD Passort has started giving me 'Access Denied' messages and I am unable to save files from my office PC to my... » Read More How to Eliminate 'Access Denied' when copying files? Greetings! My WD Passort has started giving me 'Access Denied' messages and I am unable to save files from my office PC to my Passport (still works on home pc.) I get the message "Access Denied". I can not even 'Save As' to my Passport from office pc. What happened? I used to have no problem at all. There have been no equipment changes to any of the pc's my Passport is used on. They all run Windows XP but I can only find Vista or Mac instructions online for resolving this issue. Any help is appreciated! « Show Less
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This is an issue probably related to "ownership" of the directories / files: See this link: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic8914.html for help. Hopefully, this will solve your problem. Also, referenced in that posted link is one from Microsoft describing how to take ownership of directories and files in XP: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product;=winxp(You may have to copy and paste the links into your browser).
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Thre is a much simplier way to do it. There is a program called UNLOCKER. Its a free download, best place to get it is CNET downloads. It will monitor your system or can put in the right click menu when accessing files. It will 'unlock' whatever issue you are having. You can even move files with it to different locations or if you are trying to delete files, it will do it too. Great peice of software and I highly recommend.
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BW: Unlikely...or at least not the way you'd want. If your WD Passport is configured / designed as a USB 2.0 device, attaching a USB 3.0 cable is not going to get you USB speeds. USB 3.0 is designed to be backwards compatible (with 2.0 and 1.x). The earlier versions of USB are not 'forward' compatible (in that the data throughput would be increased just because the cable was upgraded). Oh yes, did I mention the potential compatibility problem with the physical design of the plugs themselves? Even if you were to find (or make) an adapter plug, you're still up against the USB 2.x design not accepting the USB 3.0 data rates. BW: Unlikely...or at least not the way you'd want. If your WD Passport is configured / designed as a USB 2.0 device, attaching a USB 3.0 cable is not going to get you USB speeds. USB 3.0 is designed to be backwards compatible (with 2.0 and 1.x). The earlier versions of USB are not 'forward' compatible (in that the data throughput would be increased just because the cable was upgraded). Oh yes, did I mention the potential compatibility problem with the physical design of the plugs themselves? Even if you were to find (or make) an adapter plug, you're still up against the USB 2.x design not... » Read More BW: Unlikely...or at least not the way you'd want. If your WD Passport is configured / designed as a USB 2.0 device, attaching a USB 3.0 cable is not going to get you USB speeds. USB 3.0 is designed to be backwards compatible (with 2.0 and 1.x). The earlier versions of USB are not 'forward' compatible (in that the data throughput would be increased just because the cable was upgraded). Oh yes, did I mention the potential compatibility problem with the physical design of the plugs themselves? Even if you were to find (or make) an adapter plug, you're still up against the USB 2.x design not accepting the USB 3.0 data rates. « Show Less
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You just need to reformat your drive to HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) or some other format that allows for read/write access to your drive on MacOS. You can usually do this in Disk Utility on your Mac. If you are unfamiliar with reformatting Hard Drives try Googling for a How-to. It's not difficult. Just a warning in case you've already saved anything on you drive from a PC--reformatting will completely wipe any saved/existing data on that drive.
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No problem, I just use windows explorer to copy the .QBW (quick books company file) file from my desktop into the equivalent folder on the laptop overwriting the old files and voila they are synched. But be very careful to really overwrite older with newer data and not vice versa or forget to synch before you continue entering data (as it has happened to me) otherwise it is a mess. Good luck.
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I just wanted to add my .02 cents. R. Knowlton's 'delete Windows Live' advice worked for me also. I spent the better part of 1.5 days on this 'CIFS Sign In & Password' nonsense fruitlessly trying all different ID's/Passwords, messing with folder permissions, etc... It wasn't until I delete Window Live that I got my LG BX580 to find my shared folders on my Windows 7 Home PC. I had to delete everything with Windows Live attached to it (I thing it was Windows Live Essentials and Windows Live Sync that I deleted). Once deleted and my PC rebooted, my LG BX580 found my shared directories and played my files...including my HD .mkv files. No password required...just showed my folders and the files play when selected. I consider this a major 'bug' with either LG or Windows Live. They DO NOT work together.
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Here is what I have looked up for you. I, personally, never had the problem. Be careful about formatting these things. I don't. My personal advice to you. Here are more tips that I found: Ed_PPosts: 1,677Registered: ‎07-23-20100Re: HOW TO REMOVE WRITE PROTECTION FROM USB FLASH-DRIVE???Options‎12-09-2012 07:56 PMR e t u r n i t !! 1st copy the files on it to your hard drive. Then contact SanDisk for an RMA. Then RETURN IT. They will send you a new one that will work, copy the flash drive files you backed up to your hard drive to the new replacement flash drive. Voila, fixed. Here's another link: http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5232/~/return-material-authorization-(rma)-process Here is what I have looked up for you. I, personally, never had the problem. Be careful about formatting these things. I don't. My personal advice to you. Here are more tips that I found: Ed_PPosts: 1,677Registered: ‎07-23-20100Re: HOW TO REMOVE WRITE PROTECTION FROM USB FLASH-DRIVE???Options‎12-09-2012 07:56 PMR e t u r n i t !! 1st copy the files on it to your hard drive. Then contact SanDisk for an RMA. Then RETURN IT. They will send you a new one that will work, copy the flash drive files you... » Read More Here is what I have looked up for you. I, personally, never had the problem. Be careful about formatting these things. I don't. My personal advice to you. Here are more tips that I found: Ed_PPosts: 1,677Registered: ‎07-23-20100Re: HOW TO REMOVE WRITE PROTECTION FROM USB FLASH-DRIVE???Options‎12-09-2012 07:56 PMR e t u r n i t !! 1st copy the files on it to your hard drive. Then contact SanDisk for an RMA. Then RETURN IT. They will send you a new one that will work, copy the flash drive files you backed up to your hard drive to the new replacement flash drive. Voila, fixed. Here's another link: http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5232/~/return-material-authorization-(rma)-process « Show Less
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For reasons that remain a mystery, I found this happening any time I tried to move large files (in my case, an outlook exchange file was the kicker). I think it is a paging file size issue.I was able to get it on my drive, finally, by using a compression program (WinZip probably, or 7zip maybe) and setting the drive as the destination where it created the zipped file.
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I honestly don't know. This is one of a few things that I do not know about. I use the drive on a macbook pro, so I do not get messages like that. I do not know what computer you use.I wish that I can be more of help. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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I have not transfered files from earlier versions so I'm sorry I cannot help you. The reason is I have just started using this software in our business.
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Yes, as long as your drive uses a USB connection. I used my WD My Passport external drive to save recordings I wanted to keep permanently.
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Sorry I don't have an answer for the question but I can tell you the user software is a bit tedious, passwords are commonly over ridden, the rights as to how the user can use the drive is very tedious. Hopefully they upgrade the GUI which is accessed through explorer, you have to grant rights in order to use the drive the way you would like, just wish they had a better GUI.
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I'm using it on Vista. Certain image formats seem to have difficulty copying, but .JPG is no problem. I haven't tested it with all audio/video formats but have incurred no problems.
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These drives work fine on Vista. I'm using two on my Vista machine at home. Out of curiosity did the Passport click and turn on and off? I have had that issue with my Passports (80gb and 250gb) on a few computers and it's usually fixed by using a powered hub, a shorter/different USB cable or unplugging all other USB devices connected to the same USB controller. The Passports seem to want the full 5v from the USB port and they will wig out if they don't get it.
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I had the same "issue" and decided to install an updated version of office. At my office, I'm moving files onto a stand alone drive so that I don't lose any information and plan to transfer it when I reload "7". Safest thing I can come up with. Sorry, wish I could help more! DonDon
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Hi - yes, I'm using the D2 with Vista (and XP on laptop) - no trouble - has two USB connection modes - set to one (MMC?) the D2's internal memory shows up as a removable drive (just like a USB key/thumbdrive) which you can drag/drop files etc. too as normal - if you have an SD card inserted, it will show up as drive too - very easy to deal with. Using the other USB connection mode (MTP), Windows Media Player and Amazon Unbox will recognize the D2 as a "Portable Device" - though videos from Unbox appear scrambled (audio works, trying to fix the rest).Anyway, short answer is yes. Hi - yes, I'm using the D2 with Vista (and XP on laptop) - no trouble - has two USB connection modes - set to one (MMC?) the D2's internal memory shows up as a removable drive (just like a USB key/thumbdrive) which you can drag/drop files etc. too as normal - if you have an SD card inserted, it will show up as drive too - very easy to deal with. Using the other USB connection mode (MTP), Windows Media Player and Amazon Unbox will recognize the D2 as a "Portable Device" - though videos from Unbox appear scrambled (audio works, trying to fix the rest).Anyway, short... » Read More Hi - yes, I'm using the D2 with Vista (and XP on laptop) - no trouble - has two USB connection modes - set to one (MMC?) the D2's internal memory shows up as a removable drive (just like a USB key/thumbdrive) which you can drag/drop files etc. too as normal - if you have an SD card inserted, it will show up as drive too - very easy to deal with. Using the other USB connection mode (MTP), Windows Media Player and Amazon Unbox will recognize the D2 as a "Portable Device" - though videos from Unbox appear scrambled (audio works, trying to fix the rest).Anyway, short answer is yes. « Show Less
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I didn't find any security software on the drive and didn't have any problems copying any data to the drive. if you are having problems transferring data to the drive I suggest contacting Mushkin.
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You have two internal hard drives? Not many computers have that. It wouldn't be possible to say which is the quickest without knowing the transfer speeds of both drives. It may not be a significant difference anyways. The edge the external drive would have is that you can easily and quickly remove it and connect it to another computer if something catastrophic happened to your computer. Another thing- as far as I can tell there was no backup software included for the Passport so you'll need to rely on your computer's backup software. That's probably not a factor. In the end it's probably apples and oranges whether you go with an internal or external drive. Personally, I prefer the portability of an external drive. Good luck with your purchase.