Yes, I have Windows XP Professional. I partitioned my 80Gb hard dive last week and created two 40Gb partitions. I installed WinXP Pro on C and formatted the logical drive [D] as NTFS. I want to put all data files on D and protect them with the same security properties that Win XP assigns to anything in the My Documents folder.
What I don't know how to do is change the security.
Security is only on NTFS. If the other drive is Fat then there is no security available. Else it will inherit from the drive root rather than your profile.
Yes move back and change security. You do have pro?
David, I'm a little confused about how to do this. I already restored My Documents back to its default location in the C drive. Where do I type the information to reset the security? Do I move the folder again and then reset the security?
Type file and folder permissions in help and reset the security. Read D&S\Your Name permissions and apply them to the My Docs folder.
Thanks again for your help.
Warning: There is an old expression that says "Be careful what you wish for!". This worked exactly the way I requested it.
My reason for wanting to move all my data to a different drive was to avoid having to backup all the data in the event of a crash that would require me to reinstall Windows XP. I have run into two situations in the last year that forced me to reinstall Windows. The first time, I lost a music collection with about 400 CDs that I had copied to My Music folder. I decided to keep My Music and My Pictures on a separate drive. This may be OK for those two folders but "My Documents" is a whole different issue.
When I moved My Documents to my other hard drive, all my spreadsheets, documents, and financial data became public domain information on my computer. Other users of my Windows XP machine gained access to "my documents".
Lesson: Moving "My Documents" to another drive takes them out of "C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\My Documents". It doesn't create a folder in the other drive with the same attributes as the one is the "Documents and Settings" folder that limits access only to the owner of that folder.
If you are keeping My Pics and My Music in My Docs, then R/c My Docs and choose Properties then Move. If wanting to move My Pics and My Music independantly of My Docs then MOVE (not copy) the folder concerned as these two don't have a property page for it. A move, but not a copy, triggers a update function.
