Re: Admin & non Admin, NTFS vs FAT32

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Gregory L. Forster, E.A. wrote:
I have WinXP Pro SP2. For the past several years, I ran an admin account for software update and installation. I had a non admin account for general everyday operation and all the software worked there. I had my WinXP Pro SP2 on a FAT32 40Gig hard drive.

Last month, my motherboard and hard drive were failing. Earlier this month, I had a new motherboard installed and a 400Gig SATA hard drive installed. I was told that because of the huge size of the hard drive, my Windows XP Pro SP2 was installed as an NTFS, rather than a FAT 32.

All my software installed and works beautifully in the admin account. However, creating a functional non admin account does not seem possible. I was told by the tech that did the work for me that it was because of the NTFS structure I was unable to create a useable non admin account.

So, now what do I do? I was on the Microsoft website and it stated that I could partition part of the hard drive for FAT 32, but won't that destroy the data that's already there?

That tech needs to find a job in a completely different line of work. It is totally untrue that you can't create a standard user account in XP Pro on an NTFS partition. As a matter of fact, in all the uncountable times I've installed XP since it came out I've never installed on a FAT32 partition.

So something else is wrong with your system. You need to give details; just saying "creating a functional non admin account does not seem possible" isn't enough. All you've told us is "it's broken".

Please post back with details about how you are creating the account and what happens so we can help you. If you get error messages, quote them exactly.


Malke
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