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

[Paul Harmon]

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.

 

[Neemobeer]

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 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/967715/how-to-disable-the-autorun-functionality-in-windows