How to Restrict the Use of Certain Capacity HDD for Users in Windows

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Microsoft | Sofware | How to Restrict the Use of Certain Capacity HDD for Users in Windows | If at home you have only one computer and many people who use it, you must make the user to your home. This way the computer with any user will have more privacy to store data and files them. Although a computer can have multiple users, but each user should also have its own hard drive capacity. how to limit the capacity of the hard disk usage for a particular user in Windows.

NTFS file system has the ability to regulate the use of hard drive capacity, which can help administrators to manage each user to get how big the hard drive capacity is used. This tutorial you can use for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

How to Set the HDD capacity restriction for Guest Users in Windows

First, open File Explorer and select Computer, right-click and select Properties on the drive that you want to give a specific user storage limits.

After that click the Quota tab and click Show Quota Settings button.

Then tick the Enable quota management to enable the hard drive capacity limitation.

For option Deny disk space to users exceeding quota limit, will give the user a warning when disk usage is mencabai limit.

To set how much capacity should be used to set a new user you stay Limit disk space to in the Select the default quota limit for new users on this volume.

As for the Log event when a user exceeds their quota limit and Log event when a user exceeds their warning level is the setting for the administrator, when a user reaches usage restrictions, then the administrator will see in the event log.

Finally click Apply and OK. With this new user will get a hard drive that has a capacity limit.

To limit the hard disk usage on a particular user, the Quota Settings window as above click Quota Entries button. Then the window will appear as below.

Click the Quota tab and choose New Quota Entry to set the user who would you give the disk space usage limitation.

Then click Advanced.

Then click the Find Now button to search for users on your computer.

Select the user you want to give a limit to the use of the hard drive and click OK.

If you add a user who has appeared in a column like this means that you are correct and click OK.

Adjust how much the user can use the hard drive capacity on the drivers and also set the warning will be given when the time to reach the hard drive capacity. Click OK if it is.

If you are successful then the user will tertambahkan in the Quota Entries window.

How to Turn off hard disk capacity restrictions in Windows

In the Quota Settings window uncheck the Enable quota management.

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