Hiding and restricting access to HARD Drives from other users

[Alan]

I would like to know how to hide and restrict access my
secondary hard drive from other users on my computer. I
want only the local drive to show up when they log on and
when i log on for all the drives.

Tweak Manager and tweakui DOES NOT WORK and hides drives
from all users and not certain ones.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

You need to do this manually via the Registry.

If you have access to the user's Desktop, click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Right click in the right pane and select New, DWord Value. Name it NoViewOnDrive. Double click the value you just created and set it to the number that equals the drive(s) you want to restrict

A = 1
B = 2
C = 4
D = 8
E = 16
F = 32
and etc..............

The numbers are additive. So to hide A, D and E the number would be 25 (decimal) or 19 (hexadecimal).

If you don't have direct access to the user's desktop, see www.dougknox.com, Win XP Tips, Advanced Registry Editing.