Flash Drive “You don’t currently have permission…” Error
Filed under: How To Fix You Don't Have Permission Error on USB Flash Drives
Ran into a frustrating problem recently on my own computer. I found that I was not able to read external drives or flash drives from any of my USB ports. Interestingly enough, my wireless mouse was OK and it used a USB port for the mouse transceiver.
The error I got when trying to read from a flash drive was:
“You don’t currently have permission to access this folder. Click Continue to permanently get access to this folder.”
After clicking Continue I got:
“You have been denied permission to access this folder. To gain access to this folder you will need to use the security tab.”
My flash drive didn’t have that security tab which I later found out was because my flash drive was formatted as FAT rather than NTFS.
A lot of posts said to do things like play with the GPO, run USB drive cleaners, uninstall / reinstall the USB drivers, etc.
At the end of the day, I found the problem to be caused by the HP Client Security. It has a setting that can be changed to allow for full access to the USB drives. Still not 100% on how I triggered it. However, after changing the setting to full access everything is working again.
