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    Dual booting 7 and Vista. Locking HD.

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by armoured, May 30, 2010.

  1. armoured

    armoured Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys I have a question.

    I am currently dual booting windows 7 and vista, but while I am in windows 7 I can access and modify Vista's files.

    The Vista partition is on a different hard drive. Is this dangerous? If I get a virus on my windows 7 partition, can it skip over to the Vista partition and infect it?

    How can I "lock" the vista partition while I am in Windows 7?

    Thanks.
     
    armoured, May 30, 2010
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  2. kosti

    kosti Notebook Virtuoso

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    You can use diskpart to hide a partition or drive from the OS.

    How to hide hard drives in Windows XP

    Or just remove the drive letter assignment for the vista drive in disk management. Same thing as diskpart.
     
    kosti, May 30, 2010
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