Hiding and restricting access to HARD Drives from other users

From: Alan (eagl15_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/08/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 20:20:50 -0800

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.

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