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From: kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (K Dryllerakis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Need to disable A: and B:
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Date: 22 Nov 90 14:42:34 GMT
References: <11754@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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In article <11754@hubcap.clemson.edu> you write:
|> The setup:  I run a computer lab on campus which is clobbered by the
|> Stoned and Ping Pong viruses. I want to create a startup program which
|> will allow the user to be able to use a diskette or not. I want to
|> disable the disk drive if they don't want to use it because the only to
|> use it will be to have their disk scanned for viruses. 
|> 
|> Is there a program/utility which will allow me to disable the disk
|> drive ??? (A: and B: are in the same physical drive)
|> I guess it should not allow reading from or writing to the drive. That
|> would help.
|> I have checked all the pertinent directories at Simtel/WUArchive and
|> have found nothing with a description to fit the need.
|> 
|> Thank You. 
|> Chris Behrens
|> ChrisB@Hubcap.Clemson.Edu
|> 

	How about trying the simplest thing of all? Use the DOS ASSIGN
command, to assign drives A and B to drive C. From then on all
information from and to drives A and B will be rerouted to drive C.

Hope it helps,

K J Dryllerakis
Department of Computing
Imperial College
kd@UK.AC.IC.DOC
  
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