User Accounts On Disk Partitions
Feb 2, 2010
OS is Vista 64 Home Premium
My problem is this, i have 4 partitions on my hard-drive; on Drive C are all the user accounts which have their own security settings, but when I try to move my Documents folder to drive E (or any of the Drives) using the 'Move' tab on folder properties, although it still shows as a sub-directory of my user name anyone can access it on the other drive (but they can't on Drive C)
If that all makes sense, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
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