Hiding an entire hard drive from "My Computer"

[Guest]

On my home computer I have two hard drives, one for general use and the other
for storing all my programs.

I'd like to make that drive invisible to the kids as my grandchildren are
getting at
that age where they like to "try things out".

Is there a way of password protecting an entire drive, or hiding it from view?

Many thanks,

Papa

 

[Ronaldo]

This application can hide entire drives, can protect them with a password
and is very simple to use.. the price is not bad either.

Folder Security Personal 4.1
http://www.y0ys.com/hide-folder/overview.htm

http://www.y0ys.com/products.htm

 

[Guest]

Ronaldo,

Your a star.!

Just visited their site and it looks just the ticker.

Many thanks

Don

 

[Poprivet]

On my home computer I have two hard drives, one for general use and
the other for storing all my programs.

I'd like to make that drive invisible to the kids as my grandchildren
are getting at
that age where they like to "try things out".

Is there a way of password protecting an entire drive, or hiding it
from view?

Many thanks,

Papa

Go to Disk Management and set it to be "hidden". It'll still be accessible,
but not visible.

Start; Run; enter diskmgmt.msc and click OK.

 

[Ronaldo]

Papa, these tricks cost nothing and are easy to apply. I tried first &
second, both are easy to do, but the second trick is applied through the
Group Editor snap-in, which is not available in XP Home Edition.. by this
method you can access the drive it's just hidden to other users. If you
have the Home Edition, apply the first tweak, just make a note of the steps
to hide and unhide it when you need because it becomes unaccesible to you as
long as it is hidden.


How to Hide Drives in Windows XP
http://www.blogiseverything.com/tips-and-tricks/how-to-hide-drives-in-windows-xp/
This one costs nothing and is very easy to apply.


How To Hide Your Harddisk Partition (Video)

This applies to XP Pro Edition or Vista, not to XP Home, may apply also to
Win2K and Server 2003.


Hide Drives and Partitions
http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/1638
This one requires TweakUI, or editing the registry which seems a bit
complicated.



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[Guest]

create a user account for the kids. Then from your account you can encript
the drive with your program files.

 

[Guest]

right click start, explore, in the folders window goto the your second hard
drive, move your program files to one folder right click properties general
tab click advanced check "encrypt contents to secure data" box then o.k.