Attaching mdf database to SQL 2014 Express

Good day everyone,
I copied a *.mdf file to c:\program files\Microsoft sqlServer\MSSQL12.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA
I then attached the database. When I attempted to open the database in management studio I received the following permissions error:Failed to retrieve data for this request. Additional information: Unable to open the physical file "same directory
path specified as above". Operating system error5 (access is denied.)" Microsoft SQL Server, Error:5120)
I then copied the *.mdf file to the same directory path above but one that had ..\\MSSQL11.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA and received the same results. : (
Any ideas?

Is this the log file you need? Thanks for responding.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Log
errorlog.1
2015-02-18 09:45:04.33 Server      Microsoft SQL Server 2014 - 12.0.2000.8 (X64)
Feb 20 2014 20:04:26
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
Express Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor)
2015-02-18 09:45:04.33 Server      UTC adjustment: -6:00
2015-02-18 09:45:04.33 Server      (c) Microsoft Corporation.
2015-02-18 09:45:04.33 Server      All rights reserved.
2015-02-18 09:45:04.33 Server      Server process ID is 1332.
2015-02-18 09:45:04.33 Server      System Manufacturer: 'VMware, Inc.', System Model: 'VMware Virtual Platform'.
2015-02-18 09:45:04.33 Server      Authentication mode is WINDOWS-ONLY.
2015-02-18 09:45:04.33 Server      Logging SQL Server messages in file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG'.
2015-02-18 09:45:04.33 Server The service account is 'NT Service\MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS'. This is an informational message; no user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:04.33 Server      Registry startup parameters:
-d C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf
-e C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Log\ERRORLOG
-l C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\mastlog.ldf
2015-02-18 09:45:04.33 Server      Command Line Startup Parameters:
-s "SQLEXPRESS"
2015-02-18 09:45:04.96 Server      SQL Server detected 1 sockets with 1 cores per socket and 1 logical processors per socket, 1 total logical processors; using 1 logical processors based on SQL Server licensing. This is an informational
message; no user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:04.96 Server      SQL Server is starting at normal priority base (=7). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:04.96 Server      Detected 1023 MB of RAM. This is an informational message; no user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:04.97 Server      Using conventional memory in the memory manager.
2015-02-18 09:45:05.33 Server      Default collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS (us_english 1033)
2015-02-18 09:45:07.44 Server      Query Store settings initialized with enabled = 1,
2015-02-18 09:45:07.48 Server      This instance of SQL Server last reported using a process ID of 2708 at 2/17/2015 5:11:34 PM (local) 2/17/2015 11:11:34 PM (UTC). This is an informational message only; no user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:07.48 Server      The maximum number of dedicated administrator connections for this instance is '1'
2015-02-18 09:45:07.48 Server      Node configuration: node 0: CPU mask: 0x0000000000000001:0 Active CPU mask: 0x0000000000000001:0. This message provides a description of the NUMA configuration for this computer. This is an informational
message only. No user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:07.48 Server      Using dynamic lock allocation. Initial allocation of 2500 Lock blocks and 5000 Lock Owner blocks per node. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:07.51 Server      Software Usage Metrics is disabled.
2015-02-18 09:45:07.55 spid11s     Starting up database 'master'.
2015-02-18 09:45:07.91 Server      CLR version v4.0.30319 loaded.
2015-02-18 09:45:08.28 spid11s     SQL Server Audit is starting the audits. This is an informational message. No user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:08.28 spid11s     SQL Server Audit has started the audits. This is an informational message. No user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:08.33 spid11s     SQL Trace ID 1 was started by login "sa".
2015-02-18 09:45:08.33 spid11s     Server name is 'WIN-AH9KD87VGU5\SQLEXPRESS'. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:08.51 spid15s     A self-generated certificate was successfully loaded for encryption.
2015-02-18 09:45:08.56 spid15s     Server local connection provider is ready to accept connection on [ \\.\pipe\SQLLocal\SQLEXPRESS ].
2015-02-18 09:45:08.56 spid15s     Server local connection provider is ready to accept connection on [ \\.\pipe\MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS\sql\query ].
2015-02-18 09:45:08.56 spid15s     Dedicated administrator connection support was not started because it is disabled on this edition of SQL Server. If you want to use a dedicated administrator connection, restart SQL Server using the
trace flag 7806. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:08.58 Server      SQL Server is attempting to register a Service Principal Name (SPN) for the SQL Server service. Kerberos authentication will not be possible until a SPN is registered for the SQL Server service.
This is an informational message. No user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:08.58 spid15s     SQL Server is now ready for client connections. This is an informational message; no user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:08.58 Server      The SQL Server Network Interface library could not register the Service Principal Name (SPN) [ MSSQLSvc/WIN-AH9KD87VGU5:SQLEXPRESS ] for the SQL Server service. Windows return code: 0xffffffff,
state: 63. Failure to register a SPN might cause integrated authentication to use NTLM instead of Kerberos. This is an informational message. Further action is only required if Kerberos authentication is required by authentication policies and if the SPN has
not been manually registered.
2015-02-18 09:45:09.12 Logon       Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 38.
2015-02-18 09:45:09.12 Logon       Login failed for user 'NT SERVICE\ReportServer$SQLEXPRESS'. Reason: Failed to open the explicitly specified database 'ReportServer$SQLEXPRESS'. [CLIENT: <local machine>]
2015-02-18 09:45:09.19 Server      Common language runtime (CLR) functionality initialized using CLR version v4.0.30319 from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\.
2015-02-18 09:45:10.83 Logon       Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 38.
2015-02-18 09:45:10.83 Logon       Login failed for user 'NT SERVICE\ReportServer$SQLEXPRESS'. Reason: Failed to open the explicitly specified database 'ReportServer$SQLEXPRESS'. [CLIENT: <local machine>]
2015-02-18 09:45:11.55 spid16s     A new instance of the full-text filter daemon host process has been successfully started.
2015-02-18 09:45:11.67 spid11s     Starting up database 'msdb'.
2015-02-18 09:45:11.67 spid12s     Starting up database 'mssqlsystemresource'.
2015-02-18 09:45:11.69 spid12s     The resource database build version is 12.00.2000. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:11.84 spid12s     Starting up database 'model'.
2015-02-18 09:45:12.01 spid12s     Clearing tempdb database.
2015-02-18 09:45:13.36 spid12s     Starting up database 'tempdb'.
2015-02-18 09:45:13.48 spid19s     The Service Broker endpoint is in disabled or stopped state.
2015-02-18 09:45:13.48 spid19s     The Database Mirroring endpoint is in disabled or stopped state.
2015-02-18 09:45:13.58 spid11s     Recovery is complete. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:13.58 spid19s     Service Broker manager has started.
2015-02-18 09:45:16.25 spid51      Starting up database 'ReportServer$SQLEXPRESS'.
2015-02-18 09:45:17.31 spid51      Starting up database 'ReportServer$SQLEXPRESSTempDB'.
2015-02-18 09:45:17.64 spid51      Starting up database 'ReportServer$SQLEXPRESSTempDB'.
2015-02-18 09:45:18.62 spid53      Starting up database 'ReportServer$SQLEXPRESSTempDB'.
2015-02-18 09:45:23.53 Server      SQL Server is terminating because of a system shutdown. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2015-02-18 09:45:23.72 spid19s     Service Broker manager has shut down.
2015-02-18 09:45:23.72 spid19s     Error: 17054, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2015-02-18 09:45:23.72 spid19s     The current event was not reported to the Windows Events log. Operating system error = (null). You may need to clear the Windows Events log if it is full.
2015-02-18 09:45:27.47 spid11s     .NET Framework runtime has been stopped.
2015-02-18 09:45:27.48 spid11s     SQL Trace was stopped due to server shutdown. Trace ID = '1'. This is an informational message only; no user action is required.

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