Sharing/Not Sharing a drive?
 

Hey all,

So, my computer will now be used by multiple users. With Windows, I have three parititons, one which is for the OS, and two others, each for one person. I want it that if the other person logs in, that person can not use the partition/drive (in this case, E:). I will still be able to access all the drives/partitions.

So, if the other person logs into their account, that person will only see drive C: and drive D:, but not drive E:.

I looked into Windows User Accounts, but the options are limited. Any idea of how I can do this?

You could try making D:\ and E:\ their My Documents folder and restrict access so only the computer administrator and that user can access them.

Yet, wouldn't they show up still in My Computer?

Also, when looking over user accounts, I have only two options: LImited User Account and Administrative Account. Sadly, I can't specify what they can access it seems.

Permissions.

Make sure they aren't administrators.

Thanks Zerg.

ANd...d'oh.

• You can set permissions only on drives that are formatted to use NTFS.

Why DID I choose Fat32? What was I thinking?!

Can't you convert from FAT32 to NTFS? I could swear WinXP asked me to convert a long time ago after I had installed it.

I'm pretty sure you can. No idea how to do it though.

Additional Spam:
Doesn't being a "regular user" cause problems with some software?

Yeah, I can convert. This is the second problem I have ran into with having a FAT32 File System. I am trying to remember why I placed two FAT 32 systems instead of a NTFS file system.

Edit: And by convert, I guess you can say reformat. Right-Click the Drive, select format, select NTFS file system. Not a big problem for me, as the drives are basically empty, but something to keep in mind if someone were to ask the same thing later.

Not all software needs Administrator access. You can still set the users up as "Power User".

I could swear you could do it without reformatting from the Computer Management thing in Administrative Tools, but I can't say for sure right now since both of my drives are NTFS.

You can run the convert command to convert a file system from FAT/FAT32 to NTFS with the following syntax: