From: "Stephen Bird" > Although I have the latest AMI BIOS, the only "lock" I can put on the BIOS is > to restrict access to the BIOS setup and not to restrict the boot process.
Just for the record, I define "lock" as turning BIOS stuff off and then keeping them out with a BIOS system (and user) password.... That is over simplified... The real question you need to address is how much physical access will the "perps" have? (And how much time...) And will an ounce of prevention be worth a pound of trouble "when" something goes wrong... If they want something bad enough, could they walk off with the entire machine? OR, just slip out the HD?... (Where does "what if..." end?) AKA: How high do you raise the bar? I can see where using some sort of real strong encryption on the MBR (and the entire hard drive) would be "cool" and would likely keep people out, But like I had said, it is too scary for me to put all my eggs in "that" basket and then hope for the best... I recently "lost" three VERY significant hard drive sectors* on an otherwise perfect HD, and because of what was in those exact clusters Windows could not (would not) initialize the NTFS filesystem... (So I've sort of been there, done that...) * http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_disk_sector_structures.htm Rick Glazier -- ---------------------------------------- ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
