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by bob

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I have a client that wants a harddrive installed, that only he has access to. Installing the harddrive and assigning it is no problem. What I need to know is how do I either hide it from view from users of that computer(and network) other than him? This is NOT a network question. I know how to un-share the drive or the whole computer. I just need to hide the drive or password protect access to it.

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by thechas

If you really want to make this drive secure, install it in a "hot-swap" bay.

The user can then remove and lock up the drive when he doesn't want anyone else to have access to the drive.

If you partition the drive as only an extended partition, it won't interfere with the existing hard drive(s).
You will want to manually assign letters to any removable media drives.

Chas

by gigelul

For NT, Win2000, WinXP with NTFS you can use Security tab in HDD properties and asign access rights only for that user (local admin can bypass this restriction).

by timthetoolman

Hi,

We can probably be a little more helpful if you tell us what OS your client has...

Afterall the best and simplest solution is to encrypt your drive if its going to be formatted with NTFS.

Then nobody can get to it without the password to the account with the decryption key. Nobody.

If its Win98, then the solutions are less elegant, but we'll find you one.... Just let us know.

Cheers,
Tim.

by bob

Win 98se. I suppose I could just hide it somewhere and let only her know where it is.

by bob

Win 98se. I suppose I could just hide it somewhere and let only her know where it is.

by bob

Thanks,
Folder Shield wasn't exactly what I was looking for, because I want to hide a whole drive, but BAxBEx makes a program that will.
Thanks again for the help

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