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Sharing and Security on removable drive

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i have windows xp pro and i share files and folders on that perticular drive which is a usb hard drive. soo whenever i remove the drive the sharing and permsion go away i have to set them again whenever i remove the hard drive and then back in again which is tidious for me is there a way where it can stay permanantly.

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by carlos.nino

Can you please give us more details about the drive.
I have a Maxtor USB drive and it works fine for me. What I did is share the drive with the specified users, and the mapped it in their PCs. I also did the same thing with an Iomega USB minidrive and it also worked.

by admin

the harddrive make is hotdrive 2.0 40gb its usb hard drive , the shares remain whn the computer is on but when the drive is disconnected and then the computer is restarted and then when the hard drive is connected, the shares are gone only the security rights remain. I want the shares to remain even if the hard drive is removed. any1 help me

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