Password protecting a hard drive?

bubbles · 12-09-2000 11:16pm #1

Lo,

I'm using Win98, and have 2 hard drives partitioned to 6 drives. What I want to know is.. is there anyway of password protecting one of these hard drives. i.e when you try to access d: for example you are prompted for a password. And that nothing will write to the disk unless its left unlocked ?

Ta

Gerry · 13-09-2000 12:26am

why would you want to do that?

Cake Fiend · 13-09-2000 1:29am

Har har, bubbs wants to hide his donkey pr0n collection from his bro's prying eyes

Blade · 13-09-2000 1:38am

I told u about 2 years ago about PGP disk and how it works

Blade

bubbles · 13-09-2000 8:46am

No its not for p0rn or anything like that. Its actually for a machine in work.

And blade - i don't want to encrypt it, i want to password protect it. (There might be an option in PGP for that, but I can't install it in work.

Lump · 13-09-2000 6:27pm

HMMMM, they have a dodgy progy in school, that hides the HD, And control panels.

dodgy though.

John.

I got a smarty Linux programme that turns windows 98 into a Nt machine, I mean to say the way you log on etc. Protects the whole machine very well.

John

Hecate · 13-09-2000 6:32pm

policy editor methinks, you can disallow access to nearly everything depending on a user profile.

WhiteWashMan · 14-09-2000 12:28pm

not in win98 you cant rob.
theres no security in win98 unless its a third party program

Lump · 14-09-2000 7:25pm

Yea, thats what the programme I have does. Its really good for protecting the whole machine, didnt get into it much, maybe you can pass protect a harddrive.

I'll find the name out for ya.

John

_CreeD_ · 15-09-2000 6:02am

Not a direct answer, but Norton/Symantec do a package that can completely hide partitions from the OS. I don't know how dynamic it is though (ie. can you hide/unhide it at will during use).
Other than that, there's no way I know of to protect one locally, over the network it's easy though.

topgold · 15-09-2000 4:27pm

Have you looked at PD SECURE for locking down a partition? It works brilliantly for locking and securing a hard drive/computer and it's pretty good (stable) with W98.

Stephen · 16-09-2000 10:12pm

Any idea where to get that ?

Gavin · 17-09-2000 1:40am

As some abovee said, you can use poledit.
Comes free with windows ( what's this about only 3rd party security ?!?! ) It is quite easily oversome if you know that poledit is what is being used, otherwise it's handy.

on the windows cd.

Gav

bubbles · 17-09-2000 10:38pm

Thanx lads, I'll give some of those a shot.

topgold · 17-09-2000 11:54pm

You can get PD secure from Compustore in Ireland and it's carried by either Priority Data Solutions or Entropy as well.

Password protecting a hard drive?

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