Need to give Power Users access to Local Disk Management

[onecan]

Hello

I have a requirement in a client site to give access of Local Disk
Management to Power Users. They have 2 removable hard drives which
they use for backing up onto, however when they insert a disk after
removing the other they have to initialize the disk again before they
can use it. I have Veritas on the server which has a backup job set to
write data to a certain drive letter on this PC with the removable
HDD's. I think I am having to initialize the disks because they are
setup on the same drive letter for the backup, does this sound right??

At present I have made them a local administrator, however this is far
from ideal and would like to make them a Power User ASAP. Is there a
way to give a Power User access to Local Disk Management?? I have had
a quick play with group policy on the local machine however I have not
been able to work it out.

Regards,
Jonathan

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Though I am not sure if this will resolve the problem there are some
configuration settings in Local Security Policy that may help. First I would
try going to local policies/user rights - perform volume maintenance tasks
and set that to include power users. Then under local policies/security
options - devices :allowed to format and eject removable media can be set to
administrators and power users that may be worth trying if nothing else
helps. --- Steve

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I have a requirement in a client site to give access of Local Disk
Management to Power Users. They have 2 removable hard drives which
they use for backing up onto, however when they insert a disk after
removing the other they have to initialize the disk again before they
can use it. I have Veritas on the server which has a backup job set to
write data to a certain drive letter on this PC with the removable
HDD's. I think I am having to initialize the disks because they are
setup on the same drive letter for the backup, does this sound right??

It's not possible to set up two drives for the same letter.
Windows can save exactly one assosiation for one letter.
When you assing another drive to the same letter, then the
previous assingment is superseded. When you attach the first
drive again, it gets the fist free local letter because there
is no letter saved anymore for it.

To 'initialize' a drive should be necessary once only. Or do you
mean that you have to assing the correct drive letter each time?
In this case my 'USB drive letter manager' may solve the problem:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

USBDLM is a Windows service that gives control over Window's drive
letter assingment for USB drives. Running as service makes it
independent of the logged on user's previleges, so there is no need
to give the users the previlege to change drive letters.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe