Re: putting a pasword on external harddrive

Juggalo wrote:
how can i make it so that other users cannot use my external hard
drive?

Technically - anyone who is a system admin on a computer you connect that
drive to can get around this - but you could format it with NTFS and setup
file and folder permissions so only your user can get to things.

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