Extra partitions for personal files

Don't deny access to any particular group. Instead, just give your account modify or full access. Therefore, it's just you listed with permissions. Everybody else by default would have none.

pparks1 said:

Don't deny access to any particular group. Instead, just give your account modify or full access. Therefore, it's just you listed with permissions. Everybody else by default would have none.

by "your account" which one do you mean?

Whichever one you are using when you are logged into the machine. For example, I logon with pat...as this is my name and my user account.

But i am the administrator so i am part of SYSTEM, Administrators, and Users.



Which one exactly?

sorry if im misunderstanding..

No problem. Just remove Users...rather than denying it. You can leave System and Admins since you are part of those...but the users you want to keep out are not.

Are you sure removing Users will not cause me to be unable to access the drive? And u mean by clicking edit and then remove right?

Yes, as an example...I have 2 user accounts
pparks : me and I am an admin
carrie : my wife and she is just a standard user

I have one folder, C:\data1 that I want to protect. I don't want anybody but pparks to have access.


This would NOT work, as carrie is a member of authenticated users and it is allowing acces.


This would work, as it gives pparks access, but doesn't give access to anybody else. (but it also doesn't explicitly deny anybody.


This works as my wife is flat out denied access. So she cannot access, but pparks can


This wouldn't allow EITHER of us to access as we are both members of users and it was explicitly denied access

wow thank you so much. it worked!

i just hope that Linux Mint which i plan to install soon on a new partition can see the drive though!

DaRonRon said:

wow thank you so much. it worked!

i just hope that Linux Mint which i plan to install soon on a new partition can see the drive though!

It will. The permissions and such are only applicable to the OS running on the machine. Meaning that if I physically removed your hard drive and placed it into my box..I would be able to see the files and such. Therefore, when you place the second OS on the computer (Linux Mint) in your case...it will not adhere to the permissions and such which you defined under Windows.

oh thats great to hear. i cannot thank you enough kind sir.