Isolation when using dual boot

hermitg

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My son is of an age where he wants to use the computer but I don’t really want to just let him loose on the main PC as there’s lots of data on there that I don’t want him to mess with.

So this is my cunning plan. The machine has a spare drive and I intend to make the PC dual boot so that he can effectively have a new machine all to himself. Here’s the catch, I want to hide the other drives so that a) he can’t see, update, delete any of the data and b) if he ends up getting a virus or malware I’m safe in knowing my data is inaccessible.

I know I can hide the drives by removing their drive letter and have also toyed with setting the drives as offline in Disk Manager – question is will this give me the complete separation I want or would anything nasty be able to get access to my precious stuff?

I will off cause be running suitable AV and Firewall in the new instance and have everything super important backed up a number of times elsewhere….

Thanks in advance for any help :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
Instead of dual-booting, which is a dead technology in my eyes, why not just set him up with a limited user account. Then you can keep him from being able to do certain things or access certain areas of the drives.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    Intel Core i7-3770K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-Z77-UD3H
    Memory
    16 GB Patriot Viper 3 DDR3-1600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia 470 GTX
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Hard Drives
    Crucial M4 256 GB, WD WD20EFRX 2 TB
    PSU
    OCZ 700W
    Case
    Corsair 300R
    Cooling
    Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
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