protection of hard drive

Is this possible for us to protect our any hard drive partition ie make access to it personal.Can we password protect any partition.

 

read on NTFS permissions. it's all in the box more or less.

 

Christer,
i did it,but it didn't work. Any other way out.

 

If your computer is setup with NTFS partitions, you can just use NTFS built in permissions (called ACL - Access Control List) to regulate who can do what.

Here are the steps :

a) First you have to disable 'Simple File Sharing' - Login as Administrator. Open My Computer -> Tools -> Folder Options... -> View -> Advanced Setting. At the very bottom there would be a check box - 'Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended)'. Just ignore this recommendation and uncheck it. Choose Apply and close all the dialog boxes.
b) Again open My Computer - > right click on the partition/directory which you want to protect -> Sharing and Security. You would get a dialog box where you can set security, but please note that do NOT deny everything to everyone or you would be unable to access the data (Deny takes precedence over Allow ie. if you check both Allow and Deny, the access is denied). Normally its safer not to touch setting for Administrator group.

You can take over from here. Hope it helps.

 

Dear rsinfo
I am using FAT32 system,not NTFS. Any way for this.

 

Sorry, not out of the box. But there are utils available on the net which create a virtual drive and only if you have the password, you can access them. Use these utils as the last resort as your data depends on the level of debugging and stability of these utils.

 

dear christer,

your this suggestion has worked after reinstallation of system. Thanks to all of you for kind suggestion and please end this thread now.

 

dear rsinfo,
after modifying my registery as suggested by christer i have done it. Thanks for your kind suggestions and end this thread now.