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password protection ?

aphofis · 2007-08-19 23:12:19

Hi guys, looking to pick your brains, i have 2 internal hard drives and i want to password protect the slave drive as i have important info on it that i do not want the kids to delete or corrupt by mistake, is it possible to do this with just the slave drive and not have to do it as a password for windows xp access. also…

19-08-2007 11:12pm

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aphofis

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Hi guys, looking to pick your brains, i have 2 internal hard drives and i want to password protect the slave drive as i have important info on it that i do not want the kids to delete or corrupt by mistake, is it possible to do this with just the slave drive and not have to do it as a password for windows xp access. also if there was freeware to do it even better.

aphofis

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#2 20-08-2007 3:21pm

aphofis

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Anyone please !!!

aphofis

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#3 20-08-2007 4:11pm

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Perhaps the Tech/Security forum is a better place for this question ?

maybe a kindly mod will move the thread ?

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#4 20-08-2007 4:43pm

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http://www.securstar.com/home.php

this will do an amazing job at what you want to do. you can create a partition too which will boot to an encryption session before windows starts.

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#5 22-08-2007 6:37pm

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http://www.truecrypt.org/ - free, open source, cross platform and you can be more sure that the there isn't a back door than with commercial software.

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