Adding a 2nd hard drive in XP Pro

[yodog]

Need help. I have simply added a 2nd WD 80MB hard drive on a Dell Precision Workstation running XP Pro to use as a backup and as additional data storage disk...nothing fancy. As administrator, I installed the drive as E: and using diskmgmt.msc, I created new partition on drive and formatted as NTFS.

Later when I run with user privileges, I cannot copy files to the disk...only when logged in as administrator. How do I allow users to write to this drive. Seems like it should be simple, but I'm missing something?

Thanks.

 

[Shycho]

why don't you just change every1 to a admin then (only if it is a home computer), i have xp home edition and i know that limited accounts can't do much at all.

 

[jni]

Sorry i disagree..i would not make everyone an admin...that gives them administrative rights...as u should know the first thing u do as an admin is to disable the everyone group just so your users do not have that priviledge...don't know how to resolve your issue but that suggestion that shycho gave is not correct...be careful and good luck

J-ni

 

[wolluf]

You need to give 'Everyone' group necessary (ie, at leat write - probably full control) permissions to the the new drive (presuming its not been set already).

 

[yodog]

Thanks everyone. I think I might have stumbled upon a solution. It seems that I needed to turn off "Simple File Sharing", then give users the rights to the drive through permissions. Seems funny to me that this would be required when simply adding a hard drive to a system, but what do I know. Anyway, this seems to work, although I'm sure there are some security repercussions that I am overlooking. So the axiom is: Turn off simple file sharing if you want to keep it simple!