- Feb 18, 2014
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I gave my wife her own partition and Windows 7 installation because she has a tendency to install spyware and other junk. To keep things clean on "my end," I run my own partition of Win7. So we have a dual boot setup on one hard drive, a 300GB data drive for my wife, and a 1 TB data drive which contains mostly music, backups, photos, etc. I want to give my wife read only access to the 1 TB drive so she can listen to my music without accidentally deleting it or overwriting the tags.
I searched Google and found what I thought was a solution: using the built-in Security tab in Windows Explorer to set up permissions. I ended up giving her read access, but took away any access whatsoever for my Win7 installation.
Luckily I was able to reverse this action without data loss, but I have yet to figure out a way to keep read/write access for myself on this drive, while simultaneously giving my wife's Win7 read only access.
Is there a way to do this?
I searched Google and found what I thought was a solution: using the built-in Security tab in Windows Explorer to set up permissions. I ended up giving her read access, but took away any access whatsoever for my Win7 installation.
Luckily I was able to reverse this action without data loss, but I have yet to figure out a way to keep read/write access for myself on this drive, while simultaneously giving my wife's Win7 read only access.
Is there a way to do this?
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