Administrator Password Required for External Drive

I recently started to get this message when hooking up my external drive. "Device Sentry", "Security Alert!" "An Administrator password is required to allow this volume to mount." When I enter my password the drive shows up. This has never happened before. I do have the requirement to enter my password to start up, but never to turn on my external drive. Anyone have any ideas? Suggestions?
Thanks,
Kurt

Kurt, you obviously have Internet Cleanup 8 or higher installed, that is the source of the message...
http://www.macworld.com/article/131979/2008/02/internetcleanup.html

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i will re install the window server 2008 standard r2 again than First change my blank password to my complex password
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A search here has shown this topic come up before -- such as at https://discussions.apple.com/message/1886738#1886738 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/8162836#8162836 -- but I can't find a resolution, so I'm bringing it up again.
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If you want to password protect a folder ...
Launch /Applications/Applescript/Script Editor
Paste this in:
on opening folder This_Folder
repeat
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Then reformat the card in-camera, not before.
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HTH
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