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by biju thomas

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I have two hard disk ,Primary Master and Secondary Master. I want to Write Protect the secondary Harddisk. Read access should be there. Is it possible? If So please do help

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by lazyvanbee

With w2k PRO right click on drive - properties-sharing then click box read only.
Earlier win OS you can set a profile to allow access or not, its not much but hope this is a help. LUCK

by biju thomas

I want to protect the hard disk even in Dos mode.Secondly even other users using my system should not get permission to do anything on the second HDD. But allowed to do even formatting the first HDD. In Dos Mode I user shoud be able to read the data from second HDD.

Pleas Think on it!!!

by gmscne

If D: is your second drive, go to dos and type:
ATTRIB +R D: /S
This will make D: read-only.

by gmscne

If that doesn't work, try:
ATTRIB +R D:*.* /S
This will make all the files on D: read-only.

by mike (from canada)

as far as the entire hard drive is concerned, I dont think there is a way to completely write protect it. you can write protect each file on the hard drive. but anyone wishing to add new data can still do so. BUT... you could fill up your hard driveand use the remaining space for junk. make every file read only and that way no one can write to the hard drive because a.) the file is write protected or b.) the disk is full.

by lo

The +R and filling the disk is only a partitial and temporary solution. Unless you can grant Administrator / User access, have files owned by Admin, read by user (Win NT, Win 2000 do this I think), any knowledgable user can -R a file to gain accessand/or delete to get space to write files to the disk. If you have Win NT or Win 2000 (Win ME may have), check file protections in book/help/etc. Files owned by admin can be restricted. I don't think there is a solution in Win 9x. May be able toencrypt (using a 3rd part product) with a read-only, read/write, etc. access, haven't checked into that.

by biju thomas

I also know that some third party prdouct can solve this problem. Even I tried HDD Sherif 2000. But using that u canot partion the primary disk also.It protects both HDD.Thanks for ur efforts.

by maxwell edison

Greetings,

Follow this link (REMOVE SPACES if they snuck into the pasted URL):

http://www.sevenlocks.com/SWDriveRecovery.htm

There, you can download the following:

BOMBSQAD.ZIP:
Write protect your hard disk

CDISK.ZIP:
Write &/or read protect your hard disk

DPROTECT.ZIP:
Hard disk and floppy write-protection

HDPROTEK.ZIP:
Write-protect your hard disk. w/ Basic srce

HDSENTRY.ZIP:
Write-protect your hard disk

VTAC33.ZIP:
Randolph Beck's h.d.write protection s/w

WPHD.ZIP:
Write- and format-protect your hard disk

I don?t know if or how these utilities work, as I haven?t tried any of them.

Another option is to buy some disk protection hardware and/or software. Follow this link to Centurion Technologies,Inc. http://www.centuriontech.com/

The Centurion Guard? is the hardware device that "Write Protects" your hard drive. DriveShield? is software security based on the same "Write Protect" foundation for Laptops and Desktops.

Well, there are a few options. Hope you find something that works for you.

Regards,

Maxwell

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