From: "Glenn Meadows" 

John,

Did you just try cloning the whole drive straight over, partition for
partition?  (I wiped the head of this thread, so I don't recall exactly
what the drive structure was).

--
Glenn M.


"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:3fa6dc2e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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