How to Make Whole Drives Private.

[Guest]

Using XP Home, one can easily make folders private, but can one make a whole
drive (not C:\) private to just one User?

 

[Guest]

Interesting effect, it hid the drive from the first User, but not the other
Users on the Computer. I don't need to hide the drive, just make it private
to one user (the Administrator, if that helps). Any ideas?

 

[John Wunderlich]

Using XP Home, one can easily make folders private, but can one
make a whole drive (not C:\) private to just one User?

If you want to try an off-the-board solution, try the freeware program
"Truecrypt". It can make a whole partition private, mountable with a
passphrase.

<http://www.truecrypt.org>

HTH,
John

 

[Steve N.]

Using XP Home, one can easily make folders private, but can one make a whole
drive (not C:\) private to just one User?

Not by "making private" but by assigning security restrictions.

Read here:

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xpperm/xpPerm1.htm

Be careful! You can lock everyone, including the Adminstrator account
out! Assign the restricted permissions to the actual USER you want
locked out, not the Users group. Administrator is a member of the Users
group and if you apply the restrictions to the Users group EVERYONE is
locked out.

Steve N.