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So I encountered this yesterday after a power outage. My computer rebooted into chkdsk repair and it was fluctuating between 349-420 hours. Being impatient, I read the following article: “Fixing (C:) Stage 1...” has been processing for days
I decided to reboot my computer and hit any key within the 8 second allotted time to skip repair check. After doing this I ran the chkdsk E: /f /r /x command from CMD with admin, thinking it would fix my problem. I ended up with 2 unspecified errors and losing access to E: even though Disk management still saw it.
I looked for fixes on here but they all had the "Right-click" on drive and go to Security and change permissions fix. When I tried that, access was denied under Advanced settings and I couldn't access permissions from the following "change" option.
So, the fix for me was to open Command as admin and do as follows:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd /d E:
E:\>icacls * /T /Q /C /RESET (which showed me what had access denied)
E:\>takeown /R /F *
I now have access again. I hope this helps someone.
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