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echo: nthelp
to: John Beamish
from: John Beamish
date: 2003-11-03 17:52:08
subject: Re: XP and my new drive

From: "John Beamish" 

Answering my own question:  I gave up.

I was *never* able to get my usual account (John) to see F G and H (either
in Explorer or in My Computer).

Administrator, Valerie and several other accounts (some with Admin privs,
some without) _all_ saw F G and H.

I tried changing drive letters, changing the way the partitions were
created, deleting everything and starting from fresh.  Nothing changed.
*Nothing*.

In the end,

1.  I created a 31MB Fat partition (for boot purposes) and a 120GB
partition for everything else and didn't give either partition a drive
letter.

2.  I used Ghost to clone the current C: to the 120GB partition on the other drive.

3.  I set that partition to active.

4.  I powered off the machine and disconnected the power and wiring harness
to the old C:\ drive as well as setting the jumper on the new drive.

5.  I powered on the machine, it booted and the John account (and every
other one) sees a 120 GB drive with lots of free space.

But I still don't understand why it wouldn't work the way I wanted it to work.  Sigh.

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