Setting seperate permissions for external drive used by WIN 10 and WIN 7 computers

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Paul Harmon

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Is there a way to set 2 different sets of permissions for a single external HDD used on a windows 7 and a windows 10 computer so that the WIN 10 computer has full read write permissions but the WIN 7 can only read? The objective here is to reduce the chances of the WIN 10 computer, which needs to share large files with the WIN 7 computer but does not receive emails or browse, becoming infected with any type of malware. I'm not too tech savvy but any help or link to a relevant article would be greatly appreciate but please bare in mind my relatively low level of computing. Thanks for considering this question.
 
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If the drive is formated with an NTFS partition you can specific USER based permissions. You won't be able to have unique permissions set on a machine basis. This shouldn't be a big deal. You can do the following to mitigate security concerns.

Assuming you have adequate security software on at least one of the systems
  • Periodically run malware scans of the external drive
  • On the less protected system disable auto run Link Removed
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If the drive is formated with an NTFS partition you can specific USER based permissions. You won't be able to have unique permissions set on a machine basis. This shouldn't be a big deal. You can do the following to mitigate security concerns.

Assuming you have adequate security software on at least one of the systems
  • Periodically run malware scans of the external drive
  • On the less protected system disable auto run Link Removed
 
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