hide or password a drive

[Qbano]

hi,,i have children that use my computer...so that they wouldnt mess up any of my stuff..i partitioned my c drive and installed a copy of xp there for them.(e-drive)  .when they are  booted up one there os..e drive..they still have access to my c and d drive..is they a way to either hide these two drives or password them so they cant fool with them???

thanks alot

[classified]

I seem to remember a program that could password protect a share or drive.
I Think it was encrypted magic folder...

Try your luck..

[Space Between]

If they are using 2k/xp...your children i mean...just make another account for them that has all the same privelage's as Admin. but keep those 2 drives off limits to them.  You can do that in your user profile section and several other places. I have the same thing going right now...i got 2k/linux on a machine.  nobody but me use's linux so i dont want nobody somehow magically
accessing my linux parition (fat16).  so i just made a second account that was not admin but had all privelage's of admin basicallly
but it does not have access to that partition at all...i dont even use the 2k OS at all so basically nobody using 2k has access to
it.

If i didnt do that 2k would access the partiiton.

[Space Between]

about OS independant drive encryption...dont go there. If something goes wrong your pretty much sol.

[Guest]

Since you have a dual boot setup, you should have created the OS partitions as \"Primary\" so only one can be active at a time. With this setup it is not possible to see the other partition. You would then need a boot manager to easily activate the partition you want to boot from and hide the other.

Since you will not be able to view any of the files on the hidden partition, you may want to create a 3rd shared partition if you have files that you want accessed from any operating system. This would be a \"logical\" partition.

[Qbano]

thanks for the responses...space between,,i think i'd like to go your way, seems to be exactly what i want..but i had look every where in xp to try and set this.before i posted here....user accounts,, admi. tools...cant find this option anywhere..(i can stop them from changing the clock time..but no C or D drive)..what am i missing..could you please point me in the right direction...as for the primary partition..tried that..i have partition magic 8..and thats what i used to partition my c drive i tried the primery thing and you right the new partition doesnt show up..its hiden.the problem i had was when i tried to install the other os on to it..i was not able to select that partition to install xp..it had an admin. block on it or something ,,and would say that this partition is no recognized by windows xp and to select another (something to that extent)...i tried using the install another os feature in part. magic...it moved my old os to the other side of the disk and who knows what else but still would not allow me to install xp on the new partition..so ive canned that idea...but thanks....so can someone lead me in the right direction as to what space between was saying...

thanks to all!!!!!!

[shook100]

When installing the new OS you need to \"make active\" the primary partition that you want to install to. If it is not, it is hidden and is not an option to install to during setup.

A few notes:

• If one of your OS's is Win 98/ME you cannot set permissions for that drive. They do not understand the NTFS file system. No matter what, all users will have access to it.
• To create users - Control Panel > Users
• For admin tools - Right Click on Task Bar > Properties > Start Menu Tab > Customize > Check Admin Tools.
• You should not give your kids \"Admin Privliges\" because it is possible for them unknowingly to damage the system. You can give them \"User Privliges\" so they can do everything with their own files and not system files. They will not be able to Add/Remove any programs either.

These directions are for XP Pro, some of this may be slightly different for XP Home.