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My computer is trying to drive me insane... and it is s... - 5/22/2013 12:46:04 PM

jlf1961

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Recently, Monday evening actually, I added a 3tb internal hard drive to my system.

It took me until 3AM Tuesday morning to get windows to read more than 1.99 tb of the drive. After I got that straight, I transferred files from a 1.5 tb drive to the new one.

Now here is the problem. No matter what I have done, no one on my home network can access more than two folders on my system, and they are on the my old drive.

I have shared the new drive itself, each individual folder on the new drive, and they all show up on the network, but no one can access them.

Now I know that Bill Gates is trying to take over the world using the windows operating system, but come on, this is nuts.

Any suggestions?

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RE: My computer is trying to drive me insane... and it ... - 5/22/2013 1:11:07 PM

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What version of windows are you using?

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RE: My computer is trying to drive me insane... and it ... - 5/22/2013 2:43:52 PM

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Windows 7 64bit. I swear I never had this kind of problem on XP or Vista...

As I said, I have password protection turned off in file sharing, have all the folders set to shared, but every time someone tries to access them, they get a message telling them they do not have permission to access...

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RE: My computer is trying to drive me insane... and it ... - 5/22/2013 2:49:20 PM

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is it home edition and are all other computers on the same homegroup and are they all the same version?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/networking-home-computers-running-different-versions-of-windows

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RE: My computer is trying to drive me insane... and it ... - 5/22/2013 3:14:04 PM

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quote:

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is it home edition and are all other computers on the same homegroup and are they all the same version?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/networking-home-computers-running-different-versions-of-windows

Every computer in the house is running windows 7 home edition, with the exception of my sister's, hers is windows 7 home premium.

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RE: My computer is trying to drive me insane... and it ... - 5/22/2013 9:03:14 PM

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home edition...
according to Microsoft:

Homegroups are available in all Windows 7 editions. However, in the Home Basic and Starter editions, you can only join a homegroup, not create one. Computers that belong to a domain can join a homegroup, but they can't share files. They can only access files shared by others.

From: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/file-sharing-essentials

From my experience with Networks, 7 does it best, but the Basic or Starter editions are too limited. Two folders is pretty common.

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RE: My computer is trying to drive me insane... and it ... - 5/22/2013 9:40:49 PM

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I really hate Win7. I hate it with a vengeance and with severe prejudice!
I hate the interface, where it hides things, the way it works...etc etc.
It keeps asking me superfluous questions as to whether I wanted to do something or not!!
Jeeesus-H-fucking-Christ... I said to run the fucking thing - so *DO* it already; don't keep asking me to confirm it!!
That sort of thing came in with Vista - it drives me up the fucking wall.

I much prefer XP (pro). It's old; it's basic; but it gets the job done without fuss.
It lets a competent person get on with what they want to do instead of being treated like a halfwit with kid gloves all the time.
It has its limitations (a 2TB drive limit is one of them; 3.5GB usable Ram is another).
I use the 32-bit version because most of my obscure video and audio codecs don't like Win7 or a 64-bit OS.
An awful lot of my older software that I use daily won't run on Win7 or on a 64-bit OS despite proclamations that the 64-bit version will run almost all 32-bit software. Forget 16-bit stuff - that just won't even run in a 64-bit environment.

Quite a lot of my friends are using Win7 and finding quite a few obscure problems where they weren't expecting any.
Even though XP is now very old, I don't have any of those problems at all - especially networking. I just plug and go and it works.
I can't say that about Win7.
I look at Win7 in the same light as WinME (what a disaster!) and Vista - full of bugs and not exactly 100% compatible.
I'll stick with XP Pro until Ms come up with a proper working OS.
You can stick Win7 where the sun don't shine!

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RE: My computer is trying to drive me insane... and it ... - 5/23/2013 6:31:31 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Missokyst

home edition...
according to Microsoft:

Homegroups are available in all Windows 7 editions. However, in the Home Basic and Starter editions, you can only join a homegroup, not create one. Computers that belong to a domain can join a homegroup, but they can't share files. They can only access files shared by others.

From: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/file-sharing-essentials

From my experience with Networks, 7 does it best, but the Basic or Starter editions are too limited. Two folders is pretty common.

Yup, this is where I was headed, and in complete agreement with our computer maven with the stars in her eyes.

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RE: My computer is trying to drive me insane... and it ... - 5/23/2013 3:17:29 PM

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Allow me to start by saying that Win 7 Home is crippled by intent. You should be using Professional or Ultimate. That being said:

There are two settings that need to be in synch for file-sharing. One is the Share-Level Access. It sounds like you've already done this. The other is "File and Folder Permissions."

File Permissions

You can also disable your firewall to make sure that that isn't interfering.

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It keeps asking me superfluous questions as to whether I wanted to do something or not!!
Jeeesus-H-fucking-Christ... I said to run the fucking thing - so *DO* it already; don't keep asking me to confirm it!!

Turn off the UAC

Good luck

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RE: My computer is trying to drive me insane... and it ... - 5/23/2013 5:23:45 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Recently, Monday evening actually, I added a 3tb internal hard drive to my system.

It took me until 3AM Tuesday morning to get windows to read more than 1.99 tb of the drive. After I got that straight, I transferred files from a 1.5 tb drive to the new one.

Now here is the problem. No matter what I have done, no one on my home network can access more than two folders on my system, and they are on the my old drive.

I have shared the new drive itself, each individual folder on the new drive, and they all show up on the network, but no one can access them.

Now I know that Bill Gates is trying to take over the world using the windows operating system, but come on, this is nuts.

Any suggestions?

Well, first off....win 32 will see 1.5 TB without any work (workarounds exist...best thing is partitions)....win 64 will recognize 8 TB....you need win server for more than that.

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