Thank you turco! I wasn't sure about the syntax, I reviewed some examples that showed the prompt the way I posted, so I was miss-informed, sorry about that Ya1theman.

It does act like a user policy, try logging in as administrator then view group policy or user permissions for removable media. The disk may be inheriting access permissions from a policy, you gotta be logged into the administrator account to check/change the policy if you have one.

To check if you have a policy in effect for removable media go to

system | USER | Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Microsoft Management Console\Restricted/Permitted snap-ins

If there is a policy in effect you will see "Removable Storage Management" under "Restricted/Permitted snap-ins"

The policy can also be enabled from the
USER | Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Microsoft Management Console\Restricted/Permitted snap-ins

I am still reading up on this one.