The Setup
I have a hard drive which is currently split into several partitions. One of those is Windows 11, the other is a small (~15GB) FAT32 partition I would like to use as a shared storage place.
All partitions are encrypted with Bit Locker (unfortunately mandatory)
The Problem
When I mount the small partition under a drive letter everything works fine. I can create folders, copy files, etc.
I was curious about mounting the partition under a folder (it’s purely aesthetics, but I don’t like drive letters). I created a folder “C:Testing”, went into Disk Management, selected “Mount in the following Empty NTFS folder”, and chose the location.
The partition mounted, but I could not edit or delete anything. Oddly enough I could create folders though. When I went into the folder as an Administrator I could delete and edit, it was just my regular, non-Admin account that was blocked.
Solution
I changed the location of the folder to “C:UsersMeTesting” and all the permissions worked as desired. I could add/edit/delete/etc.
Question
How are the file permissions for a FAT32 partition mounted to a folder determined? At first I thought it was inheriting from the NTFS folder it is mounted to, but even when I gave “Everyone” permission to “Modify”, I still couldn’t edit files.
Not a critical question, I found the workaround, just curious what is going on under the hood.
