Rufus Access To Device Denied Windows 7

If none of the above solutions work, you can try the following workaround:

Rufus uses the Windows CreateFile API with GENERIC_WRITE and FILE_SHARE_READ flags to open physical drives ( \\.\PhysicalDriveX ). If another process holds a lock or if security policies block direct write access, the API returns ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED (5). rufus access to device denied windows 7