I have added an other drive to my PC running Win XP Pro.
My PC has two users, one is me as administrator plus another with no
adninistrator rights.
The privacy setting on drive C, that contains all the program files
including My Documents folders, does not let the other user have access to
them while the drive F that contains all my working files is wide open.
I tried to make the all drive private but the sistem does not permit me to
mark that option.
I need to make the all the content of drive F private, can anybody suggest
me how to do it?
Thanks
Maurizio

Re: How to make a drive private by Rome

Rome
Mon Jan 30 20:17:53 CST 2006

how bout partioning the drive with NTFS, and setting folder permssions.

"MaurizioC" <MaurizioC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7DF896D5-6D94-41A4-9106-94EFA1C19D96@microsoft.com...
>I have added an other drive to my PC running Win XP Pro.
> My PC has two users, one is me as administrator plus another with no
> adninistrator rights.
> The privacy setting on drive C, that contains all the program files
> including My Documents folders, does not let the other user have access to
> them while the drive F that contains all my working files is wide open.
> I tried to make the all drive private but the sistem does not permit me to
> mark that option.
> I need to make the all the content of drive F private, can anybody suggest
> me how to do it?
> Thanks
> Maurizio
>



Re: How to make a drive private by Malke

Malke
Mon Jan 30 21:36:41 CST 2006

MaurizioC wrote:

> I have added an other drive to my PC running Win XP Pro.
> My PC has two users, one is me as administrator plus another with no
> adninistrator rights.
> The privacy setting on drive C, that contains all the program files
> including My Documents folders, does not let the other user have
> access to them while the drive F that contains all my working files is
> wide open. I tried to make the all drive private but the sistem does
> not permit me to mark that option.
> I need to make the all the content of drive F private, can anybody
> suggest me how to do it?
> Thanks
> Maurizio

XP does not use passwords to protect resources. It uses permissions
instead. Here is information to help you with that:

How to disable Simple Sharing and set permissions on a shared folder in
Windows XP (Pro only)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307874

HOW TO: Set, View, Change, or Remove File and Folder Permissions in
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308418
Note that the file system must be NTFS, not FAT32.

Passwording of folders is not supported unless you zip them. When you do
(right click a folder, then "send to > compressed folder") and then open
the zip file, you will find an option under file>"add a password".
Otherwise, use third-party software. Google "password protect folders".

Malke
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Re: How to make a drive private by Roger

Roger
Tue Jan 31 01:17:15 CST 2006

If the F drive is formatted with FAT you need to first convert it
so that it is NTFS formatted. See Convert
If the F drive is NTFS formatted, then open a cmd window
start / run cmd
and into it enter
cacls F: /t /g administrators:f

This will make it so that administrative account and only administrative
accounts will be able to access anything on the F: drive

You are not able to "make private" in the user interface as that
feature is only for a couple of specific areas, like the user's own
profile storage. What the above has done is equivalent provided
that only you have admin accounts.


"MaurizioC" <MaurizioC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7DF896D5-6D94-41A4-9106-94EFA1C19D96@microsoft.com...
>I have added an other drive to my PC running Win XP Pro.
> My PC has two users, one is me as administrator plus another with no
> adninistrator rights.
> The privacy setting on drive C, that contains all the program files
> including My Documents folders, does not let the other user have access to
> them while the drive F that contains all my working files is wide open.
> I tried to make the all drive private but the sistem does not permit me to
> mark that option.
> I need to make the all the content of drive F private, can anybody suggest
> me how to do it?
> Thanks
> Maurizio
>