TheGeneral : You bring up a good point, but that is the price one has to pay for security. Part of that deals with doing a backup in either of those cases.
You may be able to reformat, but you won't get my data!
Nothing is 100 % foolproof. First sweep of security will get a good 66 % of the problems; a second sweep by another person can get, at the max, 95.5 or something similar, and the third sweep will get 99.7 %. The numbers may be a bit off... but it stay along the lines according to what i remember about stats.
Another question is do you want to use XP native code to do it? if you
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Hi, thanks for your reply and also thanks for welcoming me here.
I am afraid I cannot afford win XP proffesional, I have bought a laptot with OS already installed.
Well, I really need very good system of security, because I have very valuable data, and I do not want anyone to see or anyone to know. I just do not connect my own computer to the internet..
I am starting to think that the best would be to buy a flash disk of capacity of 2GB and to have all my data with..
What can I do else to secure my data?
thanks for replies.
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I understand the cost prohibitive issue; i try to find OpenSource code or free Student Devel stuff for my INT classwork.
It's good to hear you do not connect it to the Internet if you have that import of data on said laptop. The thing to remember is, "No one method is 100 % foolproof." Soon as I start believing it is, a good hard dose of reality reminds me. With all my data compromised.
In terms of data access, the flash memory disk is a VERY good idea. That makes sense, because then if your machine gets stolen, they'd also have to have said disk.
You could also use syskey. A description of it is here.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310105/
Quoting (or maybe paraphrasing) the Matrix " I can show you the door, but you are the one who has to walk through it."