usul Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Hi , i plan to do a dual-boot on separate drive to have a fully secure system and then another one that might be more risky to virus and malware. I try to find a way to hide the two drive from one another to prevent viral infection from spreading from one drive to another. I asked many forum but i receive no answer apart doing a virtual os. If i disable the disk drive and the ide ata controler in device manager , can a virus can find its way to this drive ? Would this drive be as safe as unplugged ?Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Hi , i plan to do a dual-boot on separate drive to have a fully secure system and then another one that might be more risky to virus and malware.Ok so what is it that your trying to dual boot..??? Windows and..??? Linux and ....???? ???? and ..????I think about the only way you can ensure that there is viral transfer between the two drives is to remove one of them and keep it "as a back up drive"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usul Posted August 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Ok let's forget about the dual boot.Will disabling the driver of the hard drive in device manager will prevent any access to this hard drive .That's what i want to know .Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Ok let's forget about the dual boot.Will disabling the driver of the hard drive in device manager will prevent any access to this hard drive .That's what i want to know .ThanksI don't think so..! I don't think you can even do something like that..If you want to ensure that no viral infection get's into the other drive in question then remove it from your computer..Are you trying to do a back-up of the system..??? Is that what you mean..?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 If you use Boot Magic (the boot manager that comes with Partition Magic), this will hide one boot partition when booting into the other. You will have two C: drives, but one is always hidden.Will this solve your problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cozofdeath Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 Disabling the driver should work. Without that nothing should be able to talk to it. A virtual system will also work but theres malware out now that can even find ways through that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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