On my computer I run 2 hard drives, one is where I have my operating systems on (Linux Mint, and Windows xp because I need it for games),
and the second one which is about 1tig, which I have all my files on.
This is the one I'll like to protect but don't know how to put a password on it to open the drive

so is there anything I could try?

Can you clarify, please?
Is the drive password protected and you subsequently can't gain access becuse you don't know the password?
Or do you have access to the drive but want to lock it with password security?

BTW, what is a "tig"?

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Phil
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Thats the one

You can do it in the Bios or right click on the slave drive and go to share ,there is a security tab in there ,unsure on xp as running vista but presume its the same
You can set a password for sharing

umm in XP you have to turn off simple sharing and then you can set user accounts etc which can access, linux can also set groups etc...think the terminal command is "chmod" (google is your friend in that respect, never used mint as a distro so not sure exactly the way it works.)

The only way to protect a drives data is to encrypt the whole disk. Use PGP whole disk encryption.