USB Portable Drive - NTFS

[Guest JG]

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

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: USB Portable Drive - NTFS

 

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

>

[Guest Bjarke Andersen]

Re: USB Portable Drive - NTFS

 

"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

[Guest Microsoft]

Re: USB Portable Drive - NTFS

 

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