secure hard drive partition

Hello, I erased my hard disk, partioned off a 1.5 gig section of it, installed windows XP, and formatted the 1.5 gig section. I would like to password protect the 1.5 gig section of the hard drive(drive D). Another possibility would be to limit access of this drive to only certain users. Basically what I am trying to do is to limit access to this drive to myself only. I also would like to make this drive extremely difficult to access from the internet although at some time in the future I might allow internet access to it. Windows XP was installed on the larger section of the hard drive(drive C). It is home edition. I will install a specialized writing program on the smaller drive (drive D) and back up my work on floppies, sometimes printing the material contained on the drive. I formatted the drives in NTFS. None of my reading or approaches to this problem have been successful up to this point. Please help!

 

Everything you are asking is included in the Professional Editional but not the Home.

Pro has the EFS (Encrypting File System) and user access restrictions that are missing in the HE. A simple configuration in the context menu of Pro will restrict users from access to folders or entire drives.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

Microsoft has special pricing for those wishing to upgrade from XP Home.

Other than that, you might consider a third-party solution such as Stealth Encryptor (which I am using on Pro, not having realized I didn't need it at first, and have used through 98 and ME):

http://www.tropsoft.com/stealth/

 

Abraxas

Thank you for the information. I will contact Microsoft about an upgrade.

Mary96