You are the desktop administrator for your company. All employees have Windows XP Professional computers. All employees are members of the local Users group on their own computers. A user in the graphics department has a removable disk cartridge drive on his computer. The disk cartridge contains an unsupported, third-party file system. When he tries to save data to the disk cartridge, the user is prompted to reformat the disk cartridge. However, he receives an �access denied� error message when attempting to reformat. You need to enable the user to save data to the disk cartridge. What should you do?
A.
Instruct the user to format the cartridge as FAT32.
B.
Remove the Read-only attribute from the disk cartridge.
C.
Add the user to the Power Users local group on the computer.
D.
Grant the user Allow – Full Control permission on the disk cartridge.
E.
Configure the local security settings to allow the user to format and eject removable media.
Explanation:
In the local security settings, we can set the permission to allow or deny someone the ability to format and/or eject removable media. The user in this scenario is receiving an access denied message which suggests the local security policy is denying him this permission.
Incorrect Answers:
A: The user is receiving an access denied message. This indicates that he does not have the necessary permissions to access the resource. Therefore attempting to format with a different file system would not make any difference.
B: If the cartridge was set to Read only the user would receive a message indicating that the cartridge is read-only. He would not receive an access denied message.
C: By adding the user to the Power Users group, the user will inherit the permissions assigned to that group. This could give the user too much permissions and privileges. It also does not guarantee that the local Power Users group has the necessary permissions to access the device.
D: NTFS file permissions are only supported on NTFS volumes. The file system used on the computer in this scenario is a third party file system. Therefore NTFS permission will not be supported on this computer.
Press, Redmond, 2002, Chapter 11, Lesson 1