I am adding a second hard drive to my windows xp Pro computer. I will
fomrat it as NTFS and use the whole drive as a complete partition. My plan
is to use this as a backup drive for data. Is there is a simple way in
Windows XP (without a third party program) to password protect this entire
drive so only I can access it. Even if I can only protect certain folders
on the second drive that would be helpful-without protecting the whole extra
drive! I do not want to compress the files. I am the only person with
administrative rights to this computer.
Thanks

Do you mean you want to restrict other accounts from accessing the drive? If
so just select properties on the drive and remove all other access rights on
the security tab. Make sure that administrators have full rights before you
remove the "Everyone" group.

"Joe" <Joe@home.net> wrote in message
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>I am adding a second hard drive to my windows xp Pro computer. I will
>fomrat it as NTFS and use the whole drive as a complete partition. My plan
>is to use this as a backup drive for data. Is there is a simple way in
>Windows XP (without a third party program) to password protect this entire
>drive so only I can access it. Even if I can only protect certain folders
>on the second drive that would be helpful-without protecting the whole
>extra drive! I do not want to compress the files. I am the only person
>with administrative rights to this computer.
> Thanks
>