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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: arjunbasnet on November 17, 2010, 01:43:28 PM

Title: Partition lock
Post by: arjunbasnet on November 17, 2010, 01:43:28 PM

How to set password on partition without using software?

Title: Re: Partition lock
Post by: truenorth on November 17, 2010, 05:55:48 PM

Here is one of what may be many ways.
http://www.help2go.com/Tutorials/Computer_Basics/How_to_Repartition_Hard_Drive_without_Reformatting.html
truenorth

Title: Re: Partition lock
Post by: quaxo on November 17, 2010, 06:02:46 PM

Quote from: truenorth on November 17, 2010, 05:55:48 PM

Here is one of what may be many ways.
http://www.help2go.com/Tutorials/Computer_Basics/How_to_Repartition_Hard_Drive_without_Reformatting.html
truenorth

I didn't see anything in that that addressed his question. Did I miss something?

Quote from: arjunbasnet on November 17, 2010, 01:43:28 PM

How to set password on partition without using software?

You can't. You can encrypt a partition, but you can't password it without the help of some other software. It just doesn't work that way. You may also password specific files or folders.

Perhaps if you could explain what you're trying to do exactly we could give you some advice on how best to achieve it.

For encryption, you could try http://www.truecrypt.org/ (http://www.truecrypt.org/). It's free.