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vasal
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Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:01 pm Post subject:
Securing External (USB/IEEE1394) IDE Drives |
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Is there a way to protect the contents of an external HDD from unauthorised
viewing/writing. In most USB Flash Memories there is a program which after
running it the USB Flash requires a password to access it everytime it is
connected to a computer. Is there something like that for HDDs? |
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Pat [MSFT]
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Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject:
Re: Securing External (USB/IEEE1394) IDE Drives |
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I am not aware of any vendor that locks HDD's (though I obviously don't know
every implementation). If you are worried about the contents of the drive,
have you consided using the encrypted file system?
Pat
"vasal" <virtual@antispam.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Is there a way to protect the contents of an external HDD from
unauthorised
viewing/writing. In most USB Flash Memories there is a program which after
running it the USB Flash requires a password to access it everytime it is
connected to a computer. Is there something like that for HDDs?
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A. de Haan
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Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:10 am Post subject:
Re: Securing External (USB/IEEE1394) IDE Drives |
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In article <uom4whUBEHA.712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>, virtual@antispam.com
says...
| Quote: | In case of encrypting the disk, i will not be able
1. to connect the drive to an other pc
2. to recover my files if my pc crashes or needs to reinstall windows.
Or I am wrong?
Depends wether you are in an Active Directory environment or not. If in |
and AD environment, there are possibilities with recovery agents etc.
There are some pitfalls, so carefully consider using EFS.
For your original question; you might google for it:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
&safe=off&q=hardware+encrypt+hard+disk+
without the hardware keyword you also get some software based systems
hth
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Arie
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"I don't want the bread,
I want the whole bakery" |
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Keith Hageman [MSFT]
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Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:04 pm Post subject:
Re: Securing External (USB/IEEE1394) IDE Drives |
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What is your definition of "secure"?
How valuable is your data?
First rule for securing systems is to NOT have the hardware accessible to
anyone except authorized personnel.
1) Having data on a drive that someone can walk up to the machine, unplug
the drive and walk away is called NO SECURITY. There are plenty of cracking
tools available on the web to eventually get past any encryption schemes you
may put in place.
2) As your Subject indicates these are external, removable drives, I suspect
you want to move these drives from machine to machine.
To encrypt the drive, the volume(s) must be formatted NTFS.
- NTFS volumes can NOT be mounted and accessed by Win9x OS versions or other
non-Windows OSes.
3) WinZip has a password protection feature. You might consider putting your
files in an archive with a password. This is not the highest level of
security but it may be enough for your needs.
--
Keith Hageman
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"A. de Haan" <ariedh@removepandinus.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | In article <uom4whUBEHA.712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>, virtual@antispam.com
says...
In case of encrypting the disk, i will not be able
1. to connect the drive to an other pc
2. to recover my files if my pc crashes or needs to reinstall windows.
Or I am wrong?
Depends wether you are in an Active Directory environment or not. If in
and AD environment, there are possibilities with recovery agents etc.
There are some pitfalls, so carefully consider using EFS.
For your original question; you might google for it:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
&safe=off&q=hardware+encrypt+hard+disk+
without the hardware keyword you also get some software based systems
hth
--
Arie
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I want the whole bakery" |
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vasal
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Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:03 am Post subject:
Re: Securing External (USB/IEEE1394) IDE Drives |
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In case of encrypting the disk, i will not be able
1. to connect the drive to an other pc
2. to recover my files if my pc crashes or needs to reinstall windows.
Or I am wrong?
Ο "Pat [MSFT]" <patfilot@online.microsoft.com> έγραψε στο μήνυμα
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| Quote: | I am not aware of any vendor that locks HDD's (though I obviously don't
know
every implementation). If you are worried about the contents of the
drive,
have you consided using the encrypted file system?
Pat
"vasal" <virtual@antispam.com> wrote in message
news:OabQw4RBEHA.1028@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Is there a way to protect the contents of an external HDD from
unauthorised
viewing/writing. In most USB Flash Memories there is a program which
after
running it the USB Flash requires a password to access it everytime it
is
connected to a computer. Is there something like that for HDDs?
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