drive letter problem for external hard

[Guest]

HI all,

I am running XP SP2 on a 2.5 year old dell 8400 desktop. I have two 300gb
external hard drives (1 USB and 1 firewire) which I have permanently plugged
into my computer. The usb drive is named M drive, the firewire drive N drive.
I also use a 1 gb flash drive, called F drive. I only turn these drives on
when I need them and turn them off when I transfered the data to and from
them.

My problem is as follows. On my internal computer hard drive (C drive) and
on the M drive I have folders that I password protect with a program called
Folder Shield. After turning off the M drive, next time I turn it back on the
folders that are password protected become visible again. This does not occur
on the protected folders on the C drive which never revert to their visible
state unless I unpassword protect them.

Can somebody please advise me how I can ensure that the folders on the
external hard drive stay protected in the same way the folders on the C
drive. I have already reassigned the letters for both the external hard
drives and the flash drive using disk management, but while this works for a
short while, eventually the folders on the external drive revert to their
unprotected state. Even if I don't password protect single folders on the
external hard drive but the whole drive, the problem persists: that is, after
turning the computer of and on again the protected drive becomes unprotected.

The problem is not connected with the folder protection program, because I
have used others and the problem exists in them all. I'm sure it has
something to do with the windows and the way it allocates drive names and the
fact that I have three external drives, F, M and N.

Any ideas anyone?

thanks

 

[You Know Who ~]

I do not believe that the way windows allocates drive letters has anything
to do with it, though of course you can set your own drive letters as you
want.
I am wondering if you are giving enough time for windows to actually write
to the drive before you disconnect it (it could be cached, but not yet
written).

 

[Rock]

HI all,

I am running XP SP2 on a 2.5 year old dell 8400 desktop. I have two 300gb
external hard drives (1 USB and 1 firewire) which I have permanently
plugged
into my computer. The usb drive is named M drive, the firewire drive N
drive.
I also use a 1 gb flash drive, called F drive. I only turn these drives on
when I need them and turn them off when I transfered the data to and from
them.

My problem is as follows. On my internal computer hard drive (C drive) and
on the M drive I have folders that I password protect with a program
called
Folder Shield. After turning off the M drive, next time I turn it back on
the
folders that are password protected become visible again. This does not
occur
on the protected folders on the C drive which never revert to their
visible
state unless I unpassword protect them.

Can somebody please advise me how I can ensure that the folders on the
external hard drive stay protected in the same way the folders on the C
drive. I have already reassigned the letters for both the external hard
drives and the flash drive using disk management, but while this works for
a
short while, eventually the folders on the external drive revert to their
unprotected state. Even if I don't password protect single folders on the
external hard drive but the whole drive, the problem persists: that is,
after
turning the computer of and on again the protected drive becomes
unprotected.

The problem is not connected with the folder protection program, because I
have used others and the problem exists in them all. I'm sure it has
something to do with the windows and the way it allocates drive names and
the
fact that I have three external drives, F, M and N.

I suggest you contact the author of Folder Shield for help.

 

[Guest]

I've tired to contact to the authors of folder shield but they haven't
responded. In any case the problem also occurs in lock folder and folder lock
so it is, in my view, a windows issue to do with the drive letters.