Folder permissions on external drive

>
> Hi
>
> I've been trying to work out the best way of doing this and have come
> to a total dead end.
>
> I have vista ultimate x64. And I have an external hard disk which I
> would like to use as a storage device for everything (music, pictures
> and individual docs of user's).
>
> The problem I am having is setting up folders for individual user's on
> the external drive and then setting the permissions of that folder so
> that only the user whose folder it is can view the files within (as well
> as the admin account)... simple user setup.
>
> But for the life of me, I cannot get this to work as all folders are
> viewable to everyone! I know in XP it was very straight forward. I am
> just lost as to why it isn't here?
>
> For information... the external HD is the Western Digital myBook drive.
> And it has been formatted with FAT32 (this was how it came).
>
> I suspect that this may be the problem (the FAT32)... but I would like
> to be sure before I lose everything...
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> BigBro1980