Colin's Weekly Tip: Making your HDD more Secure in WinXP

[Colin]

There's a very neat trick in which you can setup ownerships on hard drives within WindowsXP. This is extremely useful if you have important or sensitive data on a certain drive and do not want anyone else to access it! <BR><BR>Go to your "Control Panel" and click the "Administrative Tools" icon. From there go into "Computer Management" and then find "Disk management". Once you're there, right click on the disk which you want to claim ownership on and go to "Properties". Click the "Security Tab", then the "Advanced" button. You should see an "Owner" tab and when you're inside there, select the owner you'd like. <BR><BR>After this is done, only that user will be able to access the HDD and your data is secure. Please keep in mind, you must use a NTFS partition to use this trick! <BR>

[fredo]

Could it be that this tip only works with XP Pro? I'm running Home Edition on a machine with 2 HDs both setup with NTFS. When I follow the path outlined in this tip, I do not find a "security" tab.<BR><BR>I really would like to secure one of my hard drives, so if I'm missing something here, help me out.<BR><BR>Colin??? Anyone???

[Ender]

There is no security Tab in the properties dialog window of the HDD. This ambiguity makes the tip bad.

[killas1moBrandt]

I dont see the tab or anyother way to do this tip in that menu<BR>Im running xp pro also so???

[omga14]

This would be great information for my "private" partition. i tried to find more on it at the microsoft site but no dice.

[Lakario]

Colin failed to clarify that the security tab is only present if you follow one of his previous tips regarding increasing the sharing capabilities on Windows XP. I will attempt to find the post and keep and give you guys the link when I do.

[omga14]

thanks

[cyberiapost]

tools - folder options - view -uncheck ( use simple file sharing ).

right click the drive,properties.. u should see the security tab.