Setting format permissions by drive letter

I have a situation where we have a small group of users that use a
series of removable USB drives for data storage and transfer. Three of
these users are "administrators" for the project using these drives.
As such, they need the ability to reformat these drives, but we don't
want them to have the ability to reformat any other drive (such as
their C: drive!). All users are on Windows XP Pro.

I already changed the Device permission to allow them to reformat
removable media. However, when these drives are plugged in, Windows
recognizes them as a regular hard drive, not as removable media, so
they still cannot reformat the drives.

Is there a way to either give permission to reformat specific drives or
to do the inverse and allow permission to a user/group to reformat ALL
drives EXCEPT certain drives (allowing them to reformat any drive
except C -- or network drives -- would also be acceptible)? I poked
around in the various security policy settings and didn't run into
anything that looked like what I needed.

Thanks!

They would need to be a local administrator to format any drive via the
operating system. --- Steve


"kevenl" <krl3000@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a situation where we have a small group of users that use a
> series of removable USB drives for data storage and transfer. Three of
> these users are "administrators" for the project using these drives.
> As such, they need the ability to reformat these drives, but we don't
> want them to have the ability to reformat any other drive (such as
> their C: drive!). All users are on Windows XP Pro.
>
> I already changed the Device permission to allow them to reformat
> removable media. However, when these drives are plugged in, Windows
> recognizes them as a regular hard drive, not as removable media, so
> they still cannot reformat the drives.
>
> Is there a way to either give permission to reformat specific drives or
> to do the inverse and allow permission to a user/group to reformat ALL
> drives EXCEPT certain drives (allowing them to reformat any drive
> except C -- or network drives -- would also be acceptible)? I poked
> around in the various security policy settings and didn't run into
> anything that looked like what I needed.
>
> Thanks!
>

That's what I was afraid of from what I saw. I was really hoping there
was some drive-specific permissions hidden somewhere. Thanks.