Hard disk drive password protection

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I want to create an application which display all hard drives. After selecting a hard drive user should be able to lock it by giving a password, without correct password no contents of that drive should be displayed anywhere in the pc

Posted 3-Nov-10 4:56am

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Set user-permissions on different folders and restrict access to specific users. This can be managed from a desktop app provided it has enough permissions to add/manipulate users and file permissions. That'd be a simpler approach to trying to do this at the kernel level.

Posted 3-Nov-10 5:01am

Nish Nishant

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Thanks for your quick response Nishant. I found one desktop application (http://www.fileheap.com/dbquery/1/hard+disk+password+protection+source+code)Its pretty interesting and i want to develop my application same as like the above. But not getting any solution yet...

Posted 3-Nov-10 6:42am

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Nish Nishant 3-Nov-10 12:46pm

All of them use low level driver mode stuff to do that. As you can see, one of those tools you listed hides the partitions (won't work on Vista/Windows 7 it seems).

The short answer is that writing such tools involve a lot of work, and low-level system awareness. It's not the sort of thing that can be answered through a Quick-Answers forum.

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Nish Nishant · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-03T04:58:00

You cannot do this at the application level. You'd have to do this at the hard disk driver level. Based on your tag of .NET 4.0, I assume you are hoping to do this in a desktop app written in C#. The answer is in the negative, that's not possible.

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