Windows 2000 gurus. Problem sharing a 2nd HD

[Hawkeye-X]

I've taken out a HD from another computer because it won't reboot, but it still has its files after a bootdisk check, so we're figuring it is probably infected. Now, on my server we have two removable drives, and I put that HD into the 2nd HD, set it as a slave, and it comes up fine and readable in the directory. But... when I attempt to share it because we need to do a virus check from another computer, it just won't share. Any ideas why? Suggestions are welcome. Snide remarks are not. This is for an important client and my boss has placed this as priority one job.

Hawkeye-X

[bowens43]

1. Just curious, why not virus check it from the computer its in ?

[Hawkeye-X]

3. because it won't reboot

and my attempts to repair Windows 2000 has failed. Unless there's a better way.

Hawkeye-X

[bowens43]

5. maybe I misunderstood.

I thought you put the drive in the server as slave and could see the files?

If so, run the virus check from the server.

When you say 'it won't boot' what exactly happens?

[bamademo]

2. Why are you putting a harddrive with a virus on a networked server

Why can't you do a virus check from the server? Some viruses can propagate just from shared directories.

[rock]

4. You have to set one of the hard drives as a slave

Grok?

On edit: My bad. On re-reading your note I see you've alreay done that.

[Maine-i-acs]

6. Sharing tips

Right-click on the drive and share it. Sharing is different from NTFS permissions. The default share permissions are Full control for everyone. Don't be afraid.

Then from there you can activate NTFS permissions. Give the Domain Admin group full permission, and make sure that's the only group allowed (for now).

IMPORTANT - Anytime you change permissions like that, you have to log off and back on again to make the new permissions effective.

If you can't share the drive then, try to share just one folder on the drive.

Keep me posted.

[Maine-i-acs]

7. Followup questions

Is it a FAT disk or NTFS? The "server" in this case runs Windows 2000 Server right?

[lcordero]

8. while it was in it's original computer

did you pop in the Windows 2000 CD and go to the recovery console?
You can use either "fixboot" or "fixmbr" to repair your boot sectors.

[Maine-i-acs]

9. A little followup would be nice!

It would be good to hear if this turned out OK for you.

In a class I took, I was advised to back up the data AND my resume every time I took a server offline (lol). Hopefully, Hawkeye, you didn't have a catastrophic loss of data.