Retreaving back up

WD External Drives External Drives for PC
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tried to get file from WD. Reads access denied

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How did you copy the file into your hard drive? If you are getting permission issues then you could try taking ownership of the whole folder.

Data cannot be accessed on a secondary drive after reinstalling Windows on the primary drive
http://support.wdc.com/KnowledgeBase/answer.aspx?ID=1076