Avinator9000
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THE PROBLEM:
Hello all, I've got a minor dilemma upon my hands. I regularly work with EFI partitions (Fat32 formatted as per requirements) on my usb drives (for loading Ubuntu, Win8 installs, and Win7 installs), and I cannot seem to access any of these drives in Windows 8.
No matter how many times I format the things to Fat32 I can not even access them at all. I get the error message "You don't currently have permission to access this folder, Click Continue to permanently get access to this folder" [FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]<Clicks Continue> "You have been denied access to this folder. To gain access to this folder you will need to use the security tab" <Right-Click, Properties, search for non-existent security tab>. [/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]I understand that the security tab does not exist on Fat32 partitions. But how do we access these drives? The only other way I have found is through elevated command prompt run as administrator. (Which is dumb when you think about it because any virus coded for DOS can essentially access your EFI partition essential to your computer's booting into Windows, but you cannot access it to fix it?) Some days I just wonder what people were thinking when they write software. ~Sigh~[/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]I commonly extract ISO images straight onto Fat32 USB when they contain the /efi/boot structure, but I cannot do this without explorer access (Oh and elevated explorer doesn't help either). MS Dos only sometimes works because of the naming rules associated with it and the xcopy command, etc.[/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]To re-create my disaster, format any USB drive as Fat32 using Windows 8 (or plug one in which is already formatted as such) and try to access it. Then try right clicking the drive and look for said 'security' tab.[/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]TO SUM UP:[/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]I cannot read/write/access Fat32 partitions.[/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]It is a re-creatable issue
According to Google and 8Forums nobody has solved this. 8f has not had this issue brought up on it before.
If anyone is able to help out with this that would be wonderful, thank you in advance!!!
SOLUTION:
I'll edit this post with the solution later when/if it reveals itself, and move it to the top of the post.[/FONT]
Hello all, I've got a minor dilemma upon my hands. I regularly work with EFI partitions (Fat32 formatted as per requirements) on my usb drives (for loading Ubuntu, Win8 installs, and Win7 installs), and I cannot seem to access any of these drives in Windows 8.
No matter how many times I format the things to Fat32 I can not even access them at all. I get the error message "You don't currently have permission to access this folder, Click Continue to permanently get access to this folder" [FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]<Clicks Continue> "You have been denied access to this folder. To gain access to this folder you will need to use the security tab" <Right-Click, Properties, search for non-existent security tab>. [/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]I understand that the security tab does not exist on Fat32 partitions. But how do we access these drives? The only other way I have found is through elevated command prompt run as administrator. (Which is dumb when you think about it because any virus coded for DOS can essentially access your EFI partition essential to your computer's booting into Windows, but you cannot access it to fix it?) Some days I just wonder what people were thinking when they write software. ~Sigh~[/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]I commonly extract ISO images straight onto Fat32 USB when they contain the /efi/boot structure, but I cannot do this without explorer access (Oh and elevated explorer doesn't help either). MS Dos only sometimes works because of the naming rules associated with it and the xcopy command, etc.[/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]To re-create my disaster, format any USB drive as Fat32 using Windows 8 (or plug one in which is already formatted as such) and try to access it. Then try right clicking the drive and look for said 'security' tab.[/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]TO SUM UP:[/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]I cannot read/write/access Fat32 partitions.[/FONT]
[FONT=lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]It is a re-creatable issue
According to Google and 8Forums nobody has solved this. 8f has not had this issue brought up on it before.
If anyone is able to help out with this that would be wonderful, thank you in advance!!!
SOLUTION:
I'll edit this post with the solution later when/if it reveals itself, and move it to the top of the post.[/FONT]
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- W8 x64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X6 T1100
- Motherboard
- Asus Sabertooth 990FX
- Memory
- 16GB 1866MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI 5450, 5400, 3450 5 screens.
- Sound Card
- Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 22w, 19w, 19f, 15f, 15f
- Screen Resolution
- 1650x1050, 1440x900, 1280x1024, 1280x1024, 1024x768
- Hard Drives
- 3TB
3TB
1TB
500G
500G
500G
250GB
120GB
- PSU
- 800w generic
- Case
- Armor Thermaltake
- Cooling
- Corsair H70 sealed liquid cooling, 7 fans <14Db
- Keyboard
- Dvorak layout, Logitech Wireless
- Mouse
- Logitech wireless
- Internet Speed
- 16Mb d, 2Mb u
- Browser
- Chrome
- Antivirus
- I'll load it when I need it
- Other Info
- Yes, that is all in just one machine.