Adding a Password to a hard drive?

[jinji]

So, if this is not the place to ask this then I apologize! After googling for awhile I just cant seem to find what I am looking for (even tried a few guides)

What I am looking for is to add a password to a hard drive (Not the main one, but another attached).

I have tried Truecrypt like several guides have suggested but from what I understand about Truecrypt is that it requires the disk to be mounted through TC to access it.

That is rather annoying honestly; I really just want it to ask for a password when I try to access it otherwise deny access if password is incorrect etc...

This is not only my work computer but family computer as well. I have a few drives on it and you can access all the drives on all the users but I would like this one to just do that. Figured the extra storage for work would help out greatly and we ended up gutting one of our PC's.

 

[aevm]

You can right-click a folder in Windows Explorer, go to Properties, Advanced, and set it up to encrypt the data.

 

[mbreslin1954]

If everyone who uses the common computer each has their own user ID, or at least they don't use your user ID, then you can use Windows to set the security for the drive so that only your user ID can even see or read the drive.

You don't say what operating system you're using, but if you're using Windows 7 or Windows 8 Pro, you can open My Computer (or This PC) to see your drives. Right-mouse click on the drive you're concerned with and left-click on Properties. Click on the Security tab in the Properties window. In the Security tab remove everyone's user ID except yours, and give yourself full permissions (Full Control). You may have to explicitly list all of the other uses and Deny them all permissions, especially Read, I'm not sure.

 

[jinji]

If everyone who uses the common computer each has their own user ID, or at least they don't use your user ID, then you can use Windows to set the security for the drive so that only your user ID can even see or read the drive.

You don't say what operating system you're using, but if you're using Windows 7 or Windows 8 Pro, you can open My Computer (or This PC) to see your drives. Right-mouse click on the drive you're concerned with and left-click on Properties. Click on the Security tab in the Properties window. In the Security tab remove everyone's user ID except yours, and give yourself full permissions (Full Control). You may have to explicitly list all of the other uses and Deny them all permissions, especially Read, I'm not sure.

I completely forgot to mention that its Windows 7 Home Premium