Re: Restrict access to external drive

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Thanks William! it worked a treat!

"WTC" <bcrawfordjr(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:#qsuIsXfHHA.1312@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is the External Drive formatted as NTFS? You can check the external drive file system by opening up My Computer and right-clicking on the external drive to select properties. If the drive is formatted as NTFS then you can set file permissions on the drive. With Windows XP Home you will need to boot into Safe Mode to set NTFS file permissions but I am not sure if the external drive will be available in Safe Mode or not. If the drive is available then you can follow the directions in this KB article.

How to set, view, change, or remove file and folder permissions in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308418

If you are using the external drive with other computers then you will have to configure NTFS permissions once you connect the external drive the first time to another computer so you can view you files.

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William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

"Bill G." <bill_gs_7(NOSPAM)@hotmail(NOSPAM).com> wrote in message news:E03F2E50-AC87-484D-A40C-B0CACF017841@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello. I have just got an external USB hard disk, and I have moved my default user folders (My Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos). I have also other (limited) users on this computer. I want my personal folders to be private (not accessible through the other accounts), but this is only done under the "root:/Documents and Settings/<myuser>" directory. Since I have moved my personal folders in another directory (the external HDD), I can't seem to be able to set private attributes to these folders. Perhaps this can't be done in WinXP Home SP2 (my OS) but I would like to know what options I have.

To sum it up, what I'd like to do is to prevent access to my personal folders (which are moved in a custom location, having therefore lost the ability to be set private) from other users on the same machine. Or even (if that can be achieved) hide the external disk from all other users, so that its contents (and the drive itself) are visible and accessible in Windows Explorer under my account. Please what options do I have?




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