Fat32 External Drive

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I have a external Hard Drive that is Fat32. I hastily moved back in with
relatives and they use my computer when I'm at work. I have 'sensitive'
material in that Fat32 drive. Besides setting up seperate login accounts on
the WinXP box or physically unpluging the device, how can I 'hide' that
external drive from showing up in "My Computer" icon in any and all accounts?
For instance, since my original internal hard drive is C: and my CDRom drive
is D:, the external Fat32 drive shows up as Disk E: How do I hide this drive
under all accounts if necessary but browse (unhide) it at anytime that I
choose? Thanks in advance for your response!
 
a144mb said:
I have a external Hard Drive that is Fat32. I hastily moved back in with
relatives and they use my computer when I'm at work. I have 'sensitive'
material in that Fat32 drive. Besides setting up seperate login accounts on
the WinXP box or physically unpluging the device, how can I 'hide' that
external drive from showing up in "My Computer" icon in any and all accounts?
For instance, since my original internal hard drive is C: and my CDRom drive
is D:, the external Fat32 drive shows up as Disk E: How do I hide this drive
under all accounts if necessary but browse (unhide) it at anytime that I
choose? Thanks in advance for your response!
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You could delete its drive letter using Disk Management but that will
hide it from all accounts and all it takes is giving it a drive letter to
make it visible.

Better would be to convert it to NTFS and lock it down so that only your
logon account has access to it and make sure that your account is the only
one which has administrator rights.
 
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