Hard disk permissions

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Having added a second hard drive to store important stuff on, I'm horrified
to find all other users of the pc can see and access the data. How can I
hide or prevent access to this. I sign on using an administers account, the
others as named users. XP Pro with service pack 2 installed.
Thank you to anyone who is able to advise me
Bob
 
Assuming NTFS; remove the 'Everyone' group permissions and add the local
administrator and system accounts 'Full Control'.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| Having added a second hard drive to store important stuff on, I'm
horrified
| to find all other users of the pc can see and access the data. How can I
| hide or prevent access to this. I sign on using an administers account,
the
| others as named users. XP Pro with service pack 2 installed.
| Thank you to anyone who is able to advise me
| Bob
|
|
 
Thank you, remind me how that's done ??
I'm not conversant with this, maybe if you could point in the right
direction, I'll study help on how to do this and save you explaining it all
Thanks Bob
 
Explorer|"drive"|File|Properties|Security

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thank you, remind me how that's done ??
| I'm not conversant with this, maybe if you could point in the right
| direction, I'll study help on how to do this and save you explaining it
all
| Thanks Bob
 
Thanks
Tried that, but I don't have a tab for security, only sharing, and that's
greyed out......
 
You may need to disable simple file sharing.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307874

Kerry
Thanks
Tried that, but I don't have a tab for security, only sharing, and
that's greyed out......

Dave Patrick said:
Explorer|"drive"|File|Properties|Security

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

Nospam said:
Thank you, remind me how that's done ??
I'm not conversant with this, maybe if you could point in the right
direction, I'll study help on how to do this and save you
explaining it all Thanks Bob
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May not be an NTFS formatted partition or in the case of XP Home startup in
a 'Safe Mode' boot logged on as local administrator to do this.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thanks
| Tried that, but I don't have a tab for security, only sharing, and that's
| greyed out......
 
Nospam said:
Having added a second hard drive to store important stuff on, I'm horrified
to find all other users of the pc can see and access the data. How can I
hide or prevent access to this. I sign on using an administers account, the
others as named users. XP Pro with service pack 2 installed.
Thank you to anyone who is able to advise me
Bob
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You should not use the built in Administrator account for your normal
account activities. Create a separate account with admin privileges.
Keep the Administrator account as a back up if the other admin account
is damaged.

To restrict access set permissions on the folders. See this:
How to set, view, change, or remove special permissions for files and
folders in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308419

Or in Start | Help and Support type permissions in the search box.
 
Nospam said:
Having added a second hard drive to store important stuff on, I'm horrified
to find all other users of the pc can see and access the data. How can I
hide or prevent access to this. I sign on using an administers account, the
others as named users. XP Pro with service pack 2 installed.
Thank you to anyone who is able to advise me
Bob
Click to expand...


HOW TO Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783

HOW TO Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q308418


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