Only the Administrator can access hard drives.

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I have a PC with two large USB drives that I have been using for nightly
automated backup. I have until recently always logged on with administrator
rights, but was recently told that to have an administrator-enabled machine
on while on a broadband connection made the machine more vulnerable. I set
up and started using a "limited" user account, but I now find that the
automated backup doesn't run. The scheduler starts OK, but the "limited"
user does not have permission to write to the drives. How do I go about
giving that limited user permission to use those drives? (As a limited user
I can see the drives, and even open files that are on the drives. I cannot
copy them elsewhere, and nor can I write to or delete from the drives. "C"
drive is fine...)

Any and all good advice will be gratefully received.

Adrian
 
ACP said:
I have a PC with two large USB drives that I have been using for nightly
automated backup. I have until recently always logged on with administrator
rights, but was recently told that to have an administrator-enabled machine
on while on a broadband connection made the machine more vulnerable. I set
up and started using a "limited" user account, but I now find that the
automated backup doesn't run. The scheduler starts OK, but the "limited"
user does not have permission to write to the drives. How do I go about
giving that limited user permission to use those drives? (As a limited user
I can see the drives, and even open files that are on the drives. I cannot
copy them elsewhere, and nor can I write to or delete from the drives. "C"
drive is fine...)

Any and all good advice will be gratefully received.

Adrian
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Go into the scheduler right click on the task look for a box that says
run as put in your admin acct and set the password.

gls858
 
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