Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!holin!doc
From: doc@holin.ATT.COM (David Mundhenk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: write protect disk drive
Summary: Use OnTrack Disk Manager
Message-ID: <236@holin.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 88 17:56:20 GMT
References: <6266@techunix.BITNET>
Organization: AT&T DSG Holmdel NJ USA
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In article <6266@techunix.BITNET>, baruchc@techunix.BITNET (Baruch Cochavy)
   writes:
> I would like to write protect the C partition of a hard disk, but keep
> drive D free. I have something like WPHD, but it write protects C *and*
> D drives. Anybody, any clew ?

I have used software called "Disk Manager" by OnTrack (sp?) quite a bit,
mainly for configurations with uncommon drives. However, one option I 
noticed is the "type" you can assign to a partition. If I recall
correctly, the options are: MS-DOS, Write-Read, Read-Only, and 'other'
(you supply a number for the type).               ^    ^
I am not sure without referring to the documentation, but you MAY be able
to boot from the Read-Only type partition. Otherwise my suggestion would
be to make a very small DOS boot partition, and use "JOIN" in your
autoexec.bat to mount the Read-Only under the root directory on the boot
partition.
To summarize, this is not the only way to do this, I am sure. But I would
highly recommend this software because of other features, such as 
dynamically changing disk parameters while formatting, etc.
Don't recall the price but I don't think it's expensive because a version
was included with an ST238 I bought once...
(I am in no way affiliated with the company(s) that market said software)

-Dave                "Credo quia absurdum"
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