Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 20:26:00 +1000 (EST)
From: DONALD PEDDER <jims_son AT jedi DOT apana DOT org DOT au>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: protecting DR-DOS from Windows
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Hi All. Me again. :-)

   Haven't had a chance to check out those hardware programs yet,but have
delayed having another go at Linux install for a few days. In the
mean-time,I have ANOTHER question for y'all. :-)

   I am in the process of setting up my computer as a multi-partition,
multi-boot one. The over-view is that I have a "DATA" partition which
contains all my PERSONAL stuff,and DOS programs. i.e. stuff I want to
BACKUP. All Windows stuff (most of which is installed from CD,and
therefore doesn't need to be backed up) I install to a
"PROGRAMS" partition.
   The point to this is that the "DATA" partition is then free to be under
the control of the full suite of DR-DOS utilities since the disk isn't
getting touched by Windows (diskopt and delwatch don't support
long-filenames). I still have those partitions ("DATA" and the DR-DOS boot
disk) visible to Windows so that I can still ACCESS that stuff,even though
I won't be doing any updating while running under Windows (so that I don't
leave any long-filenames on those disks).

   My problem is,Windows IS touching that disk. It keeps dumping a
"recycled" directory onto the disk (which can only be removed by a
re-format) with a "desktop.ini" in it (the file can be deleted,but not the
directory). I don't know what particular operation is doing this.

   So,what I'm wondering - does anyone know how to make these partitions
read-only to Windows? I looked in "properties" for the disks,but there was
nothing like that there.
   Alternatively,I need to know how to get rid of that directory. "rd
recycled" says it's in use,or not empty (untrue in both cases),or
sometimes says it can't FIND the directory (even though you can "cd" into
it).

   I hope they make the source for Windows available to others so someone
can FIX this #*$^ OS that we're forced to live with. :-( (Of course,it
would also be helpful if a new DR-DOS came out that supported Windows
disks,eliminating the need for this partitioning)


regards,
   DONALD - Left-Brain Extraordinaire,Right-Brain in Rehab.

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