[stan*]

I have exturnal 200GB that i use to store back ups of family pics "like many"
Im thinking of putting this drive inside the kids computer but i was wanting to know how to password the drive i would access it over LAN kids PC is win xp pro sp2

the other 3rd pc that i have is vista HP i notice that vista has a "encrypt somethin" under the title bar would this be alrite to use or is there a freeware prog that will encrypt drive?
i dont mind movin all data to temp drive to set up the 200GB HDD

thnkz^

[lunarlander]

If your kids pc is XP Pro, then it has EFS encryption built in. Right click the top folder on the drive, choose properties, /advanced button/ encrypt to secure data.
Then make an account on that pc. Right click the top folder, in the security tab, remove all other accounts except yours and you will have that folder all to yourself.

[DoubleHelix]

I do not recommend a home user enable Windows encryption. If you don't back up the encryption key and anything happens to the account, hard drive, or Windows installation, the files are permanently lost.