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permissions USB
Hi,
I have had no trouble in the past setting up permissions on a NTFS formatted USB drive using XP. I am able to set everyone to have only read access and myself to have full rights.
the process is as follows:
remove all from the list exept everyone.
add myself as a user with full control.
go to advanced options for everyone and disable write access, and enable read access.
deny takes over allow, so thats all good.
eject USB everyones happy :).
in Windows 7 this is not the case, after formatting the USB to NTFS and going to permissions, that is where the problems start.
at first the only group that has permissions as default is everyone, if i change any of these permissions i get access denied even though I am the owner because i formatted the drive.
So i ignore and continue to add myself as full control. i get access denied! I then move on to making it so that everyone has read access but no write access. again access denied!
what is the same process ins XP is not the same in 7, why?
It seems every time I make an amend to a permission in 7 is says access denied even though i am the admin and the owner. Tried thsi also on the hiden admin acount and I still have the same problem.
My guess is in window s7 everyone actually means everyone, including admin and myself, so even though adding myself as an additional user it still wont allow, unlike XP where adding a user seems to overwrite everyone.
I hope I have made sense, and someone can help me.
Thanks!