Windows Vista hard drive partition

I'm getting a TB internal hard drive for my HP 9610us with all the bells and whistles. I want to partition sections for different things and password protect them. Any way to do this? I will use Vista home premium as the OS. and xp on the second Hard drive. (my laptop houses and can use 2 hard drive. second one will be a 250 GB seagate)

 

From the PC Help Forum

 

Trouble with a password system is that it may become corrupted or you forget the password and then you get locked out of your own data.

If you want to use Windows security (it is your computer I take it) set yourself as administrator, anyone else that uses it, give them a standard user's profile. As administrator you can right-click on folders and drives and under the Security tab grant or deny permissions to whoever you want.

It might seem a little daunting, but Help and Support has full instructions.

As a beginner, you should have a standard user's profile for your day to day tasks. Log into the administrator's profile for administrative tasks, that way it is hard to make any changes that might wreck/destroy the system.

Matt