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by efrahm

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I have recently deployed new computers company-wide, and set default users to be restricted (i.e., not power users). This prevents users from formatting drive... a good thing, except in the case of zip disks, or other removable media. I would liketo find a means to add formatting rights to the drive in question without upgrading the users to power user or administrator rights. Does anyone have an idea how this is accomplished?

I have tried creating a share (though I do not want workstations sharing drives), and the local user still cannot format the drive. I have sought possibilities in local group policies or NT policies (we have not implemented Active Directory, yet). I am at a loss, and iomega will only suggest assigning

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by deadly ernest

The setting you want is a policy named 'Devices:Allowed to format and eject removable media' and you need to add your User Groups to the setting.

Without knowing which operating system you have I can not be sure where you will find it. In WinXP Pro it is Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Local Security Policy then Local Policies >> Security Options about the 10th item in the list.

I suspect it should be in the same place with Win2K and Win NT, but no guarrantees.

by efrahm

this solved the problem. i hadn't found where that setting was, and Iomega told me i'd have to make all users admins or power users. this allows me to leave the default user status as 'user' (restricted), while allowing them to format the zip disks.

thank you

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