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Which Software to Password Protect a Partition on a Hard Drive?

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jdd:
I like the idea of creating a limited user account and creating permissions so that personal files can only be read by me.

However, the ‘Make this folder private’ option is grayed out on the folder properties tab.  My understanding is that you can only set permissions for files and folders on the same drive where Windows is installed, which is C: drive in my case.

Is there any way to set permissions for folders on the D: drive partition?

f0dder:
Is there any way to set permissions for folders on the D: drive partition?-jdd (August 31, 2008, 07:01 PM)
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As long as the partition is formatted using NTFS, yes - you might have to disable "simple file sharing" in order to see the proper permissions dialog box, though.

Oh, and which windows version do you use? Iirc some of the Home editions don't have GUI for setting permissions.

jdd:
Windows XP Pro, partitions are NTFS

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