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Thread ID: 51225	2004-11-14 23:04:00	hardrive hide from others	yingxuan (3330)	Press F1

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292177	2004-11-14 23:04:00	My friend uses his external hardrive at polytech. Sometimes his friend asks to borrow his hardrive.he wants to lend the hardrive to his friend but hide the content in the hardrive so his friend can't read or alter delete etc in his external hardrive. Is there a program which he can use?	yingxuan (3330)
292178	2004-11-14 23:31:00	Various encryption programs around. Not sure how you would stop it getting deleted, but if his friend was going to be deleting data then I wouldn't be lending them the drive! ;)	PoWa (203)
292179	2004-11-15 00:13:00	Unfortunately the best thing would be encryption, and not builtin security for Windows, reason being as Administrator can take ownership, if the drive is slave and not the active drive of boot. If he's worried about data being deleted, then he should not lend it out, his friend can't guarantee that no damage can happen, so it's a friend's risk only. Hiding content is easy enough though, although why go to so much trouble, if you've got something to hide, why lend out the drive?	Kame (312)
292180	2004-11-15 00:16:00	Any programs that hide the content would have to be running on the local computer to work (except setting the 'Hidden' attribute, which is useless anyway). For security I'd recommend AES Crypter (digilander.libero.it), but you could still delete data. The best way, though, would probably be to partition the drive and have a hidden partition (perhaps formatted with NTFS so permissions can be set).	agent (30)
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