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sstoneb
I run WinXP Pro from a "limited" user account, and use my administrator
account only when I have to.
When I upgraded to XP, my secondary hard drive was larger than the max
allowed drive under the FAT filesystem, and I recently converted that
drive to NTFS using convert.exe. I then ran diskpart.exe to extend the
partition (or "volume" these days I guess) to take up the full drive.
I ran both of these utilities from my admin account, of course, and
again, this is my secondary drive, which I use for storing media files.
XP itself is installed on a different drive which has been NTFS since
I upgraded to XP several months ago.
In altering my secondary drive, there has been no data loss -- all the
files are there and still accessible. However, when I am in my
regular, limited user account, I can no longer alter any files that
were on the drive before I made the change. For example, I can't
rename those old files. I get the standard "Access denied. Make sure
the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not
currently in use."
I can still write to the drive to make new files, and I can modify new
files however I like. If I am in my administrator account I have full
access and can modify the old files as I expect. I even tried bumping
my normal account up to admin status, and that allowed my user account
to modify the files. But when I set it back to a limited account, it
lost the ability to modify files again, even ones that I played with
while the account was admin-level.
Regrettebly, I don't know whether it was the convert or the diskpart
that caused this, as I didn't try to modify any files in between
running the two programs.
Does anybody have any idea what may have caused this? Can it be
rectified, or do I have to resign myself to running an administrator
account all the time?
--Steve-o
account only when I have to.
When I upgraded to XP, my secondary hard drive was larger than the max
allowed drive under the FAT filesystem, and I recently converted that
drive to NTFS using convert.exe. I then ran diskpart.exe to extend the
partition (or "volume" these days I guess) to take up the full drive.
I ran both of these utilities from my admin account, of course, and
again, this is my secondary drive, which I use for storing media files.
XP itself is installed on a different drive which has been NTFS since
I upgraded to XP several months ago.
In altering my secondary drive, there has been no data loss -- all the
files are there and still accessible. However, when I am in my
regular, limited user account, I can no longer alter any files that
were on the drive before I made the change. For example, I can't
rename those old files. I get the standard "Access denied. Make sure
the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not
currently in use."
I can still write to the drive to make new files, and I can modify new
files however I like. If I am in my administrator account I have full
access and can modify the old files as I expect. I even tried bumping
my normal account up to admin status, and that allowed my user account
to modify the files. But when I set it back to a limited account, it
lost the ability to modify files again, even ones that I played with
while the account was admin-level.
Regrettebly, I don't know whether it was the convert or the diskpart
that caused this, as I didn't try to modify any files in between
running the two programs.
Does anybody have any idea what may have caused this? Can it be
rectified, or do I have to resign myself to running an administrator
account all the time?
--Steve-o