SmokingMan Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 I have all personal files on a seperate NTFS drive. I've tried to make certain directories private, but the checkbox to do that is grayed out. I just recently had to do a format & restore, but XP and all programs are installed on another drive. I keep our personal files on a seperate drive so I can do an F & R if I have to without losing our personal files. Could this recent F & R on my C: drive have did something to make it unable for me to lock out certain directories on my D: drive even though it is formatted as NTFS? I had the D: drive formatted as NTFS already before I had to do the F & R on C:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 Are any folders inside the "private" directory public? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokingMan Posted May 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 If you mean are they visible and accessible to all other users, the answer is yes. Before I had to do an F & R, these folders were locked and only able to be accessed by me. Now since the F & R, they are able to be accessed by everyone. I seem to have lost the capability to control access to my files since the F & R. These files are on a separate NTFS drive from the OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokingMan Posted May 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 Does anyone have any ideas here? Could it be that I have to reformat the drive with these files as NTFS ( even though it's already an NTFS drive ), in order to regain the ability to lock these directories down? Could the F & R of the other drive ( the one with the OS ), have anything to do with this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted May 30, 2005 Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 I am under the impression that you can only make a folder private if the folders "beneath" it are also private. Can I ask what you mean by " I seem to have lost the capability to control access to my files since the F & R. " ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokingMan Posted June 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 Before I had to do a format & restore on my C: drive, I was able to make directories private on my D: drive. The D: drive is NTFS. I was able to protect a directory, which made all of the sub-directories within it private also. They could only be accessed through my user profile. After the F & R on C:, I can no longer lock out the directories on D:, even though it's still NTFS, and there were no changes made to that drive. I use C: for the OS and all applications, and D: for all of our personal files. Could the F & R on C: have done something to disable the file security on D:?I'm at a loss to explain this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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