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echo: nthelp
to: John Beamish
from: Ellen K
date: 2003-11-04 16:14:52
subject: Re: XP and my new drive

Obviously the machine is biased against users named John!  

> 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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