Re: password protect a second drive
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:11:28 -0700
REDWAGON wrote:
> I don't think I agree with the last paragraph in your reply Ken. When
> I use my "Verbatim" 1 GB USB flash drive and store folders and files
> on it from one of my internal hard drives on my desktop computer, I
> use the password protection that came with the flash drive for all
> that information. I plug it into my desktop several times during a
> day and then unplug it to take to another business computer. Each
> time I transfer files I have to give it my password before I can look
> at anything on the flash drive. I have been doing this for quite some
> time now and have never lost the password. It always has worked and
> has never "Gone Away". Nor have any of my files.
>
> Is this what you were referring to in that last paragraph ? As far as
> the two internal hard drives I have on my desktop: I back up
> everything on them once a week to DL DVD disks. (Well not everything.
> There is some stuff I really don't care if I loose).
My point in my last paragraph below is simply that it the drive is not
permanently installed, there's normally no need to protect it against
someone's maliciously or accidently modifying what's on it. No password
protection is needed if the drive is not always accessible.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
>> Joe wrote:
>>
>>> I am adding a second hard drive to my windows xp Pro computer. I
>>> will fomrat it as NTFS and use the whole drive as a complete
>>> partition. My plan is to use this as a backup drive for data. Is
>>> there is a
>>> simple way in Windows XP (without a third party program) to password
>>> protect this entire drive so only I can access it. Even if I can
>>> only protect certain folders on the second drive that would be
>>> helpful-without protecting the whole extra drive! I do not want to
>>> compress the files. I am the only person with administrative
>>> rights
>>> to this computer.
>>
>>
>> If I were you, I would rethink my backup strategy. I don't recommend
>> backup to a second non-removable hard drive because it leaves you
>> susceptible to simultaneous loss of the original and backup to many
>> of the most common dangers: severe power glitches, nearby lightning
>> strikes, virus attacks, even theft of the computer.
>>
>> In my view, secure backup needs to be on removable media, and not
>> kept in the computer. For really secure backup (needed, for example,
>> if the life of your business depends on your data) you should have
>> multiple generations of backup, and at least one of those
>> generations should be stored off-site.
>>
>> My computer isn't used for business, but my personal backup scheme
>> uses two identical removable hard drives,I alternate between the
>> two, and use Drive Image to make a complete copy of the primary
>> drive.
>>
>> If you get an external hard drive instead of an internal one (or put
>> a regular internal drive into a, external USB enclosure) and don't
>> keep it installed, your need to protect the drive with a password
>> will go away.
>
> Redwagon.......
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
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