Re: password protected user on slave drive

From: Eglider (Eglider_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:03:02 -0700

Thanks for the fast response. I just had to do a little more reading and
another post jogged my memory regarding the "simple file sharing". I turned
it off and everythings fine. That was too easy.

Another question. It seems at one time when I was poking around in the
administrative tools area I saw an option to hide drives. Is this possible?

Thanks
Rick

"Matt DuBois [MSFT]" wrote:

> There are two requirements to see the Security tab. First, the drive must
> be formatted with the NTFS file system. Secondly, Simple File Sharing must
> be disabled. It sounds like the drive IS NTFS, which means you just need to
> disable Simple File Sharing. To do so:
>
> Open up My Computer. Go to the Tools menu, and select Options. Click on
> the View tab and look for the option "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)"
> to uncheck it. It is the very last item in in the list with the English
> sort order, but the position varies by language.
>
> After doing that, you should be able to see the security tab again.
>
> --
> This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
>
> "Eglider" <Eglider@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:D7423BA0-B450-4237-B94C-74113C76BE8C@microsoft.com...
> >I have a similar problem with XP Pro. I have a second hard drive which was
> > partioned and was set up so only the administrator(myself) and one other
> > profile could access it. After I did a clean install (format c:) the
> > administrator gets an "access denied" message but it can be accessed with
> > the
> > other profile. I honestly can't remember how I did this previously. I do
> > remember on the previous install when I would right click on the drive
> > under
> > sharing and security there would be a security tab which is no longer
> > there.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rick
> >
> > "Matt DuBois [MSFT]" wrote:
> >
> >> The good news is that you're probably going to be able to get your files
> >> back. The slightly less than good news is that the process is a little
> >> involved on XP Home. Check out the following KB article and see if it
> >> fixes
> >> you up. You can reply back to this message if you have more questions or
> >> run into trouble, or even just to say that it worked for you.
> >>
> >> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421
> >>
> >> --
> >> This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> >>
> >>
> >> "JD" <JD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:4CC1B7A3-811C-4AB6-9BC7-632CD8EC5B49@microsoft.com...
> >> > My hard drive crashed. The restore CD did not recover it (I can't boot
> >> > up
> >> > on
> >> > this drive). I bought a new hard drive, installed it as Master drive,
> >> > and
> >> > installed the old hard drive as a Slave drive, hoping to recover my
> >> > files.
> >> > Was able to recover all files from all User Accounts except mine, the
> >> > Computer Administrator account, which I had password protected in order
> >> > to
> >> > open. When I go to my (Computer Administrator) User Account in
> >> > Documents
> >> > and
> >> > Settings on this Slave drive via My Computer or Windows Explorer or
> >> > Microsoft
> >> > Word (Open File), or other programs, I get an "Access is denied"
> >> > message,
> >> > with no chance to even try to enter my old password (which, by the way,
> >> > is
> >> > the same password I'm using on my new (Master) hard drive).
> >> >
> >> > Since other User Account data files were OK, I remain hopeful that mine
> >> > are
> >> > too, if I could just access them. Any ideas? (Hate to admit it, but I
> >> > hadn't done a comprehensive hard drive backup for six months, so I'm at
> >> > least
> >> > a bit desparate.....)
> >> >
> >> > Thanks in advance for any help. I'm using Windows XP Home Edition
> >> > (with
> >> > SP2).
> >>
> >>
> >>
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