Access denied to hard drive

[Vanguard47]

I recently assembled a new system. Since I do not have Internet access at home, I initially set up the machine at work in order to download Windows updates and other stuff. While doing this, the computer was a member of the work domain. When I took the machine home I changed it from the work domain to my home workgroup. Everything seemed to be fine, with the exception of being able to access my second hard drive. When I click on the drive letter inside of Windows Explorer I am told that access is denied. Properties for the drive list RAW as the file format. The drive shows up is Disk Management and is listed as healthy. All options such as Reactivate are grayed out. The only option that isn't is the Format Drive. I hestiate to do this as I have about 20 GB of data I don't want to lose. Disk Management let me change the drive letter designation but nothing else. I am confused as to why this would happen when I did nothing more than change from a domain to a workgroup. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[AWS]

I have seen this happen before when a box is a member of a domain. You could try and rejoin the domain and then set the drive for sharing. This should give you access to it again.

 

[handan2002]

Wouldn't rejoining the original server, copying all data over to the first HD, and then formatting the second HD be the easiest way?