USB Portable Drive - NTFS

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Hello all,

I have a Freecom Toughdrive 160Gb which I want to use as "travel disk".
A part will be public and another part will be private.
Since i'll have some files that exceed 4GB, i converted the FAT tot NTFS.
All is fine as long as i work on the same computer/same user at home. When I
plug it in to another workstation, i can read, but can't alter, delete the
data.

What should i do to make this fully accessable, on any Windows XP machine?


Thanks.

jg
 
You'll need to modify the ACL for the drive contents. You can add a
user "Everyone" and grant it Full Rights. XP Pro provides direct access
to Security for Files/Folders. Using XP Home you'll have to boot to Safe
Mode to be able to modify ACL ( Access Control Listing ). On XP
Professional "Simple File Sharing" may have to be modified to enable
the Security (TAB) to appear for disk contents.

"JG" <ricosjet@wegdoenhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> I have a Freecom Toughdrive 160Gb which I want to use as "travel disk".
> A part will be public and another part will be private.
> Since i'll have some files that exceed 4GB, i converted the FAT tot NTFS.
> All is fine as long as i work on the same computer/same user at home. When
> I plug it in to another workstation, i can read, but can't alter, delete
> the data.
>
> What should i do to make this fully accessable, on any Windows XP machine?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> jg
>
 
"JG" <ricosjet@wegdoenhotmail.com> crashed Echelon writing
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> All is fine as long as i work on the same computer/same user at home.
> When I plug it in to another workstation, i can read, but can't alter,
> delete the data.
>
> What should i do to make this fully accessable, on any Windows XP
> machine?

Look at the file security settings. They might have been assigned only to
be accessed by a certain user located on your home computer.

This should be set to everyone for the file(s) and folder(s) you wish to
access from every machine.

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Bjarke Andersen
 
Thank you both for your advice.
It works.

jG

"Bjarke Andersen" <bjarke.andersen@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "JG" <ricosjet@wegdoenhotmail.com> crashed Echelon writing
> news:uOMlJsHzIHA.4876@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:
>
>> All is fine as long as i work on the same computer/same user at home.
>> When I plug it in to another workstation, i can read, but can't alter,
>> delete the data.
>>
>> What should i do to make this fully accessable, on any Windows XP
>> machine?
>
> Look at the file security settings. They might have been assigned only to
> be accessed by a certain user located on your home computer.
>
> This should be set to everyone for the file(s) and folder(s) you wish to
> access from every machine.
>
> --
> Bjarke Andersen
 
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