Hiding partitions on dual boot system

[Justin Case]

I' m workign on a pc that gets totaly bunged up with spyware & pop ups
every few months by the owners son.

I installed a 2nd hard drive set up a dual boot si his son can use his
own system without messing up the owners.
I'm concerned that as long as the primary instalation on "C:" is still
visible and accesable, it's still vulnerable to viruses and
corruption.
Does XP have any native capabilities to hide partitons or at least
password the boot selection in this type of scenario or will I need a
third party utility?
I've tried this before with XP and win2k on my own PC and partition
magic/boot magic didn't work on (hide) the ntfs partitions from
eachother. It worked with two instances of win98 though.

Is the solution to install the secondary instance of XP with fat32
so that it can't see/mount the ntfs partition?
If so, can a ntfs volume be converted to fat32?

TIA

 

[Richard Urban]

The solution is to install each operating system in it own primary DOS
partition and then use a 3rd party boot manager to choose which one to boot
into. You use the boot manager to hide the inoperative partition. The one
not being used will be totally insulated from whatever happens on the one
that is running.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

XOSL is one of these boot loaders. It's free. I use it for
several clients who are tired of reloading Windows on
their home PC every few months after their kids have
wrecked it again. They are now happy: Their version of
Windows is rock solid, the kids version keeps getting
wrecked.

 

[Richard Urban]

Yes! I started doing this on my own PC's in 1994. I have never gone back.
Except for a hardware failure my computers have always been available for
me.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!