Troubleshooting: Permissions
ERROR: access denied [-5000]
Your login account does not have the right to create a test file on the volume; it is forbidden by the permissions on that volume.
This is not a malfunction or bug. Although DiskTester runs as a user-mode program, it cannot create a test file on a volume when permissions disallow it. Create an admin account and test using that account.
- In some cases, your login account is not an administrator account, and thus does not have permissions on the volume.
- In other cases, the permissions on the volume are set such that even an adminstrator does not have the access rights to create a test file on the volume.
- If the permissions disallow writing, even 'sudo' will not work; the permissions on the volume must allow write permission at the top level of the volume (in order to create the test file).
Suggested workarounds
1) If your account is not an administrator account, create one , and test using it.
2) If this is not the boot volume (startup volume), do a on the volume, then check the box . Be sure to change it back when done, unless you prefer it that way.
3) If neither of those works, most likely an administrator has set up your system this way deliberately. To test, you’ll have to change the permissions. In some cases the window for the volume will allow you to make the necessary change: you need “” permission for your login account on the volume.
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