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How can I control who can eject ZIP disks?
John Savill
June 14, 1999
1 Min Read
A. Windows 2000 introduces a new registry key which allows you toconfigure who can eject ZIP disks:
Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon
From the Edit menu select New - String Value
Enter a name of AllocateDASD and press Enter
Double click the new value and set to:
0 = Admins only can eject
1 = Admins and power users
2 = Admins and the interactive user (this allows normal users)
Click OKClose the registry editor
Reboot the computer
I have been informed that the above also works on NT 4.0 as long as you runthe undocumented IomegaAccess utility included in the latest Iomegawaredownload. This utility installs a service that grants all users rights toformat, eject, etc. Note that the program must be run from the hard drive, asthe service defaults to referencing the installation directory on startup.
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