making a drive private

[Thomas Hayes]

I have three hard drives on my computer and would like to
make one of them private. I have Windows xp home and have
attempted to do so by
going to my computer, right clicking the drive, selecting
sharing and security. The problem is on every attempt the
making folders private box is grayed out and I cannot
make the change. I have converted all drives to
ntfs.
Thanks

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

XP Home: By default, you can only make files and folders under My Documents "private". This is done by right clicking a folder or file and selecting Properties, Sharing. To change the permissions on other folders, you need to boot the computer to Safe Mode and log in on the built in Administrator account. In this mode, you'll see the Security tab in Properties, and you can assign permissions based on user name or group membership.

HOW TO: Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418

HOW TO: Set, View, Change, or Remove Special Permissions for Files and Folders
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;308419

HOW TO: Disable Simplified Sharing and Password-Protect a Shared Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;307874

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

Please see my reply to your identical post in the public.security NG.
In the future, keep in mind that if you post once, to multiple NGs if
that is appropriate, then you create one thread and all replies posted
in all of the NGs are collected together.