Drive letter assignment and security

[Ron]

this is the deal: i use a windows xp as my main os, and
on a separate partition i have a minimal installation of
windows 2000 which i use for various computer
administration tasks (like defragmenting the winxp
partition, cleaning viruses etc), and in case of a
disaster. now what i would like is some mechanism that
would ensure that the windows 2000 partition is
completely inaccessible while winxp is running, so that
in case of a virus attack, for example, it is not
infected and i can regain control of the computer.

the question: what i did so far is remove the letter
assignment to this partition, through the winxp disk
manager, so the win2000 partition doesn't seem to be
accessible through winxp. is this a good solution? is it
secure enough that i can assume viruses and other
intruders will not be able to access this partition as
long as winxp is running? if not... is there a better
solution?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

It should be. Most virus's aren't that complicated, so if Windows can't see the drive, then the virus can't either.

 

[Ron]

thanks, that's what i was hoping to hear

-----Original Message-----
It should be. Most virus's aren't that complicated, so

if Windows can't see the drive, then the virus can't
either.

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