Dual hard drive question

[comp110]

At work we've installed dual hard drive in some of the training computers for recovery purposes in case of emergency. Both hard drives are XP and there's a banner that let users know not to pick the Emergency one. It's also set to automatically pick the first one.

How can I hide the second hard drive from showing in "My Computer", so that users don't save anything in there when they are logged in the first one?

 

[rvnguy]

comp110,

Not sure of your platform...But is you implement either a Hardware or software implementaion of RAID 1 you cold accomplish your "emergency backup" automatically and also the mirrored drive is directly visible/addressable.

rvnguy

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[wolluf]

Use the option in XP's tweakui?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

 

[paparazi]

comp110
In my opinion (for what it's worth)

Having a "backup hard drive" like this continuosly powered up and running in the back ground kind of defeats the whole object of it being there in the first place.

Typically one of the most common catastrophic failures in a PC is when a power supply fails which often results in hard drive damage at the same time.
As well as this the second drive is exposed to virus attacks and general wear and tear.

My advice:
Fit removable hard drive caddies and physically remove the drives until needed.
Example:

http://www.vantec.com.tw/mrk103f.html

Martin


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