Can you Deny Access to a drive?

by f.ahmed02 Feb 7, 2009 1:39PM PST

Hey there people, I just bought an external hard drive and i have some of my sensitive information stored on it. The hard drive is mine and all, but im PRETTY sure that i am not the main user on the computer and i want to deny access to the drive on other accounts. Is this possible? And if it is please tell me how. Thanks!

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Well...

by FrankQC Feb 7, 2009 1:53PM PST

Have you tried going in My Computer, right click the hard drive, properties, Sharing tab, Advanced Sharing? You can set permissions from the properties.

p.s. You should encrypt your external hard drive then; if your information is that secretive/confidential.

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heres what i got.

by f.ahmed02 Feb 7, 2009 1:57PM PST

well i right clicked the drive and went to the sharing tab. There was an option that said something like "to make sure that this folder is private so that only you have access to it, click this box" (which is exactly what i want) but the check box was grayed out. Im pretty sure it was grayed out because i was trying to hide a whole drive instead of just one folder.

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(NT) Are you the administrator of the machine?

by FrankQC Feb 7, 2009 2:00PM PST

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(NT) i dont think so

by f.ahmed02 Feb 7, 2009 2:09PM PST

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Then yeah

by FrankQC Feb 7, 2009 2:24PM PST

In most (if not all) operating systems, you must be an administrator to edit permissions (and other things too).

p.s. http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-activate-hidden-administrator-account-in-windows-vista/

If it's your computer, I suggest you do this. You'll be able to add an administrator account iny our XP. (Unless you need to be an admin of your computer in order to add accounts). Try it out. Worth a shot.

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