Locking users out of hard drives in Windows Vista

Often enough, people want to block certain users from accessing their hard drive. In this tutorial, I will show you how to do so.

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Note: You have to be logged into an administrator account in order to do this. Locking users from all hard drives will not disable a user from logging in.

First, select the hard drive of your choice

Once you have done so, right click and select properties

You should get a dialog with information about your hard drive. In the series of tabs (Usually 8, but 4 if windows is installed on that drive) select the tab that says "Security"

There should be a list of users. Simply click on "Edit". Press ok on dialogs you get.

Now, select "Everyone" in the list. "Everyone" gives any user who uses the computer access to the hard drive. Press "remove" once you have selected "Everyone". Press ok on any dialogs that may come up.

Now, press "add". In the large white space of the new dialog, type in the name of the user under which you are logged in. Press ok. If you are not sure if you typed in a valid user, press "check names".

Repeat the last step for every user you want to have access to the hard drive.

Your done! Click on the hard drive in your account to check you haven't locked yourself out. If so, just go back and do the process all over again. The users that don't have access should get an error when double clicking on the hard drive.