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From: bussiere@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Luc Bussieres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How to write protect c: but not d: ?
Keywords: write protect, device driver
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.204233.14384@DMI.USherb.CA>
Date: 1 Dec 90 20:42:33 GMT
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In article <1990Nov29.172401.15268@polyof.poly.edu> ted@polyof.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela, Staff) writes:
>	[text deleted]
>ALSO - If you boot from a floppy that does not load this device driver, well,
>you could kiss the whole scheme goodbye.  It will (obviously) only work
>while the driver is loaded.  True, you could modify the partition table/boot
>sector as some programs do, which would effectively make the drive
>inaccessible unless you boot from it or a specific floppy. 

	Do you know where I can find a program that do modify the partition
table. I need it to really protect the hard drives on our PCs. The students
are always erasing files or reformating them.

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