does a harddrive password program reside in the mbr of the harddrive?
Printable View
does a harddrive password program reside in the mbr of the harddrive?
depends how secure the data has to be, a harddrive password can be hacked quite easily but would stop all but the most determined thieves. eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uydMlQlEiyc
i need a way to hide and unhide the drive using vb6
its for my systers pc
You can't really hide a drive unless you write a driver, which is not possible in VB6 or install some sort of 'illegal' rootkit.
You can also hide a hard drive via the registry. It will hide the drive from "My Computer" and file browse dialogs, but it does not prevent access to the drive if people know the drive exists and manually type the hard drive path in Windows Explorer or the command prompt.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/