bootcamp partition and privacy question

I'm using bootcamp to dual load vista and mac osx. The problem is from the mac osx side the vista partition is readily accessible with no password restrictions etc etc.

Is there a way off preventing unauthorised access to the mounted vista partition from the MAC OSX side? Such as the requirement of an Admin password to access the mounted partition?

And how do i stop spotlight from searching the drive too??

I take any suggestion I just dont want people snooping in the vista drive or doing a search and finding files I dont want then to see or read when they're using the mac osx.


Thanks in advance

 

Hmm... I think you might be out of luck there. Not sure any such way exists, short of creating some sort of script to unmount the partition automatically and then manually remount it if you want it to be seen perhaps? This would only work if the person(s) that you are hiding it from aren't tech-savvy enough to do this themselves though, of course, so it's far from a perfect solution... (please don't ask me how to do this by the way, I was never much into automating things short of the occasional crontab)

 

You can use FileVault to encrypt the user folder. Then atleast your privat files wont be accessable without a password.

 

thanks for replying guys,

So am i right in understanding that i can use file vault to encrypt the windows partition?? Not sure if that wil work because what if I boot up in windows? will windows even work?

 

No, you cannot use File Vault on the Windows partition - wave must have misunderstood your question.

 

ok basically I dont want people to access my windows mounted drive from the MAC OSX side. I'm looking for solutions to stop this.

Is there an encryption program available that works on both Windows and MAC OSX operating systems??

 

I really don't know if there's a way. Have you tried Google?

In Linux, you have to give admin access to mount a partition. But once it's mounted, anybody can access any files on it. So if OS X is mounting it automatically, there's likely not much you could do, unless you have a way to change the permissions of the partition.

 

I think this should work:

Create an apple script that unmounts the Vista partition.
Add it to start up.
Now the Vista partition will be unmounted unless you mount it, which you need the admin password for.
Create a 2nd applescript to mount the partition (still needs the password) to make it easier to mount when you need it.

Spotlight wont be searching unmounted partitions too.
It takes a few secounds to mount and unmount paritions. So its not the ideal way if you need to access the Vista partition often.