Hitachi External hard drive

[Hitachimartin]

I just move the external drive from office to my house computer , then when I try to connect the external drive said access denied. How can I get access to put my password?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

It may be a security feature built-in to whatever password-protection software you used for it on your office PC.
Stops it being moved to, and accessed on, a different computer (ie if the drive ever got stolen).

You might get away with just installing the password-protection software on your home PC.

Otherwise, you'll have to take the drive back to your office PC and remove the password protection using the same software you used to set the password in the first place.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Hitachimartin,

I would agree with Phillip Corcoran.

Apart from that, I believe it would not hurt to try to take ownership of the drive, grant permissions and see what happens: http://www.preyerplanning.com/take-ownership-of-entire-hard-drive-in-windows-7.pdf

Cheers,
D_Know_WD