How to Fix WD Passport Access Denied in Windows 10/8/7?

Hard drives are known for storing data of users, data can be in the form of images, documents, videos and music and etc. These hard drives are electronic gadgets and thus they are not prone to errors. Malfunctioning of hard drives can lead to inaccessibility of the drive and sometimes it can lead to loss of data. So whenever you witness difficulty in accessing hard drive it is appropriate to connect with Western Digital support where professionals will help you in the best possible way to eradicate the issue from the roots. The team of experts is accessible 24 hours in a day round the clock to help their valued customers.

After connecting hard drive with your system if the warning message ‘Access is denied’ flashed on your screen then you should understand that you don’t have the authority to access this device. There is different possibility due to which you can confront this error message but one thing is for sure that your hard drive has gone corrupt and in order to rectify the complicated situation just go through below-mentioned points:

Fix WD access denied in Window 7/8/10

For Window 10 and Window 8

• After right clicking on inaccessible drive open the Properties 
• Then click on Security tab and select edit button
• The dialog box of Permission for the respective drive will open now you need to tap on Add new Authenticated user
• Click on Continue after giving full control to new user from Authentication section

For Window 7

• Open the properties of the inaccessible drive
• Go to Security tab> Advanced Option> Edit
• Now do the modification of the Owner tab

Sometimes in order to solve the inaccessibility issue, users can format the drive but formatting will make you permanently lose your data. If accidentally you have formatted the hard drive then in order to recover data from WD you must get in touch with technical executives who can assist you in solving the issue. Users can use some recovery software’s that can help them to restore their lost data without wasting their much time.