shared hdd partition

my uncle gave me a 300GB hd to put in my pc. pretty cool, i think. anyway, he told me that after i install it, to partition it in half and share 1 of the partitions over my network so my family can store data on it since their hd is very low on space. do i just have to enable sharing over the network for this to work? or do i need to do something else?

Just right click on the partition and pick sharing and security. From there click the bit that says "If you understand the risk but still want to share the root of the drive, click here" then click the option to share without running the wizard (forget the exact text on this but it's in the 2nd pane). It will prompt you again with the wizard but you don't need to use it. Then check the box to share this drive on the network and allow network users to change my files.



edit: closed thread. Use duplicate shared hdd partition