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HDD protection

By gaurav.its ·
i have several partition(c,d,e,f,g) on my HDD. i want to protect these partition by using password.
Means whenever i want to enter these partition i have to enter the password.
Is that possibe in windows xp & Vista? if yes then HOW???????????

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You can try giving the drive different permissionsq

by Slayer_ In reply to HDD protection

Give the drive only permissions to a specific user account, it can be limited or admin, doesn't matter. Just make sure it is the only one with permissions. Then when you try to open it, right click the drive and say open as, and enter the user name and password of the account that has the permissions.

However, if the account you are using currently is an Admin, it would be really easy to reset the permissions on these drives so that anyone can access them.

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Not to mention...

by Snuffy09 In reply to You can try giving the dr ...

depending on how much data is on the partitions it could take a long time for all of the files/folders to inherit the security settings made on the drive (partition).

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Download this

by Snuffy09 In reply to HDD protection

Truecrypt

you can password encrypt (lock) a whole HD or just specific folders, best of all its free.

http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads.php

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