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I changed permissions on a drive and now Windows Backup says "Access is denied." How do I give it read access?

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I'm using Windows 10 Pro. I recently changed the permissions using the "Security" tab of the Properties window for a drive on my PC so only my user account has any kind of access. I had previously set up backups for this drive to another drive (whose permissions I did not change) using the "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" utility. Now when a backup tries to run, I get an error message saying "Access is denied."

How can I give the backup utility read access to the drive? I tried giving read and execute permissions to the drive to SYSTEM, LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK, NETWORK SERVICE, SERVICE, and "Backup Operators," but that didn't help. Is there another user or group I need to grant access to? Or is there a way to make the backup service run under my user account?


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