baruchc@techunix.BITNET (Baruch Cochavy) (11/18/88)
I would like to write protect the C partition of a hard disk, but keep
drive D free. I have something like WPHD, but it write protects C *and*
D drives. Anybody, any clew ?
If everything else fails, I might even try writing a TSR that
would grab the disk driver by its tail (strategy routine) to do the
work. Any clew on that is welcome also.
Thanks in advance,
Baruch Cochavy
baruchc@techunix.BITNET
baruchc@techunix.technion.ac.ilmalpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass) (11/21/88)
In article <6266@techunix.BITNET> baruchc%techunix.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu (Baruch Cochavy) writes: >I would like to write protect the C partition of a hard disk, but keep >drive D free. Now that viruses (virii?) have finally gotten appropriate attention, I've been thinking of adding HARDWARE write-protect to my hard disks so that questionable software can be exercised from floppy only. Anybody have any thoughts about this? -- Don Malpass [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa], [malpass@gandalf.ll.mit.edu] The Malpass Principle: Given a binary choice, the statistical probability of doing the right thing is 31.7% - on good days.
doc@holin.ATT.COM (David Mundhenk) (11/22/88)
In article <6266@techunix.BITNET>, baruchc@techunix.BITNET (Baruch Cochavy) writes: > I would like to write protect the C partition of a hard disk, but keep > drive D free. I have something like WPHD, but it write protects C *and* > D drives. Anybody, any clew ? I have used software called "Disk Manager" by OnTrack (sp?) quite a bit, mainly for configurations with uncommon drives. However, one option I noticed is the "type" you can assign to a partition. If I recall correctly, the options are: MS-DOS, Write-Read, Read-Only, and 'other' (you supply a number for the type). ^ ^ I am not sure without referring to the documentation, but you MAY be able to boot from the Read-Only type partition. Otherwise my suggestion would be to make a very small DOS boot partition, and use "JOIN" in your autoexec.bat to mount the Read-Only under the root directory on the boot partition. To summarize, this is not the only way to do this, I am sure. But I would highly recommend this software because of other features, such as dynamically changing disk parameters while formatting, etc. Don't recall the price but I don't think it's expensive because a version was included with an ST238 I bought once... (I am in no way affiliated with the company(s) that market said software) -Dave "Credo quia absurdum" ------------------------------------------------------------------ /^, , , . . , , , , , / } _, , , . __/ | /| / /| /| , , __, __/ /_ _, __, /_ /_./ (_l |/ / /_/ |/ |/. / |/ | /_/ / / /_/ / / /_ / / /\ Disclaimer: My opinions do not reflect those of anyone I work for or with, or anyone who does not look like me.