How could I split up my hard drive to 2 different accounts (mine and Families)

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So when I finish my PC build I will make two accounts mine and my moms and so when I boot it up and I make my account when I get on and download the drivers then I have to split the accounts my current one and I will make one for my family so how will I do that and how do I give the M.2 (Samsung 960 evo 500gb) just to me and 500gb of my HDD (seagate 3Tb) and 2.5 tb to my moms account but not letting them on the M.2 will I have to lock it up for them or will I have to reload the OS (windows 10 64bit) on the HDD or will the OS still be available but they just won't be able to download it on to the M.2.

Long story short how do I split my HDD 500gb to my account and 2.5tb to my moms and keep the M.2 just to myself (but will the OS still work even if it is locked to that account)


Thanks and sorry it's so confusing
 
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Yes. By changing privacy policies on a non-admin user, you can lock access to a specific drive. Using your admin account, obviously. Just go to your Ssd you My computer and change the permissions. Delete the user "Everyone" and add yours and your moms usernames. Then you can change what either can do with it.
And you can also customize the path for the My documents folder.
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You would have to Install 2 instances of Windows and install one on the SSD and the other on the Standard hard drive. Even then they could see and use both drives, unless you encrypted the ssd. Plus you would have to reboot on every user change. Why do you want to do this? What you are looking for would be a complete mess. you are going to have to give them access to the boot drive. Share your computer and delete your browser history, i assume thats what your worried about,
 
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Since you want to keep it separate instead of having multiple user profiles you could install windows twice making it a dual boot system. You would need to restart the PC to select which windows account you want to run but that would allow your drives completely separate to theirs.
 
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Only if you install windows twice. One for each user and dual boot. you could move the default save location for the 2nd user to the 2nd drive but they will still have access to the ssd. What are you trying to accomplish with this?



 
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readup on user account controls you should be able to make there user a non admin, then they are limited to what they can install, that is about as good as you are going to get. I would just get them a Cheap laptop/chromebook and say here use this.
 
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Yes. By changing privacy policies on a non-admin user, you can lock access to a specific drive. Using your admin account, obviously. Just go to your Ssd you My computer and change the permissions. Delete the user "Everyone" and add yours and your moms usernames. Then you can change what either can do with it.
And you can also customize the path for the My documents folder.
 
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