[Theocnoob]

How do I totally omit a piece of hardware from a windows install?

I have 2 HD's, the AAKS is for this kinda thing, the raptor is for games.

I don't want the windows install on the raptor to see this HD and I don't want this HD to see the raptor.

In Device Manager on the AAKS, I disabled then uninstalled the RAPTOR

but I notice when I hit scan for hardware changes, the raptor appears again and is ready to use.

This concerns me.

Could a well written virus not scan for such changes and access the raptor in this manner from the AAKS drive, which is likely to contract viruses due to lax questionable browsing?

Is there a more secure way to do this?

I considered using my 2 SATA controllers (4 port and 2 port respectively) seperately and disabling the other controller in each windows install respectively, then I remembered I only have one optical drive and if I do that one of the windows installs can't use it

is there a more secure way to permanently and irrevocably uninstall a piece of hardware?

Thanks

[smokie mcpott]

why not just practice good surfing habits and prevent anything from happening to begin with
OR if you just cant stay away from the pr0n
run another windows instance in a Virtual Machine on your pc if all you are doing is web surfing and stuff like that

i see no reason to run 2 different XPs on 2 different harddrives....on the same machine

unless one was 32bit and one was 64bit..

[Theocnoob]

Originally Posted by smokie mcpott

why not just practice good surfing habits and prevent anything from happening to begin with
OR if you just cant stay away from the pr0n
run another windows instance in a Virtual Machine on your pc if all you are doing is web surfing and stuff like that

i see no reason to run 2 different XPs on 2 different harddrives....on the same machine

unless one was 32bit and one was 64bit..

Thanks for not answering my question

[tuskenraider]

Don't ask Windows to go searching for something you've disabled and it won't be fournd and doesn't exist as far as anything operating in it's environment is concerned.

[smokie mcpott]

Originally Posted by Theocnoob

Thanks for not answering my question

i did.

its called VIRTUAL MACHINE...its a great invention. you should look into it.

it is probably the BEST way to keep 2 OS's separate without having ANY conflicts.....


or you could still go the route of SMART INTERNET USAGE

[dogbert_2001]

Only disable, don't uninstall.

Go into Computer Management and remove the drive letter.

[curtis1552]

+1 for disable
+2 for VM, it's more fun too. (and you can use Linux, further reducing spyware/adware)

If disabling it doesn't hide it from MyComputer and you want to, then download TweakUI (or is it TweakXP now) there's links from the Microsoft site to it, and googling should dig it up fairly easily.