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HDDPRT.COM - HDD Protect Daemon V2
(C) Copyright Denis Zibarev, 1996. All rights Reserved.
This is first public release, Freeware!
Why you need it?
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You can ask me: 'Why I must use it?'.
I will answer: 'To protect the system areas of your hard drive. This is
necessary because of many viruses that writes to system areas in order to
make disk un-bootable. Or, if you are system programmer, you would like
to prevent your programs to write to the system areas of hard disk.If you
think some time about this problem, you can find an other reasons to use
it.
How does it works?
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Oh, this is very simple. When started, HDD Protect Daemon intercepts the
BIOS interrupt,that any program uses to write to the disk.If Daemon finds
that any program trying to write to a system areas, it simply returns an
error code 'Disk is write-protected' without any actions.
And how about system software?
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If you use programs like Fdisk or Format on your hard drive, you must
disable HDDPRT first. Simply remove the line calling HDDPRT.COM from your
autoexec.bat file, and reboot the system.
OK, how can I install it?
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This is simple. Make a directory called, for example, ZSOFT, on your hard
drive. Execute:
MD \ZSOFT
Copy all files from this pack to this directory. For example, you
decompress files to \TEMP\DownLoad directory. Execute:
COPY \TEMP\DownLoad \ZSOFT
Add the line calling HDDPRT.COM to your AUTOEXEC.BAT:
Before: After:
@ECHO OFF @ECHO OFF
SET PATH=C:\EXE;C:\SYMLNK;D:\SYMLNK;E:SYMLNK \ZSOFT\HDDPRT
SET WATCOM=H:\WCL; SET PATH=........
..... .................
Tips
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Running Windows: I does not test this program under Windows, (I have
only OS/2 and MS-DOS on my computer), but, I think, all should be OK.
Moving HDDPRT.COM to upper memory:
I think this program takes so little of memory, that there is no reason
to move it to high memory, but it should be OK if you change line
'\ZSOFT\HDDPRT' to 'LH \ZSOFT\HDDPRT' in your autoexec.bat file.
Running under non-MSDOS:
Windows95:This program WILL NOT work under Windows95.
OS/2 :Due to IO Supervisor of OS/2,this program is useless under OS/2
DR-DOS :Not tested.
NovellDOS:Not tested.
PC-DOS :OK.
CompaqDOS:Not tested.
For MS-DOS, versions 2+ are supported.
Why this program is freeware
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Because I _H_A_T_E_ ShareWare!!! ! I think that program must be fully
functional, and not a demo! From another point of view, there were many
little people, that will register a fully-functional shareware product.
Therefore, my program have an unlimited trial period, that means that is
FreeWare! Use it for your joy! But if you would like to contact me, use
[!] e-mail:den@re.tsu.tomsk.su From my point of view, every system
programmer, that writes program to itself, must distribute it only as
FreeWare!
TM's: OS/2, PC-DOS are registered trademarks of International Business
Machines Corporation.DR-DOS is a registered trademark of Digital Research
Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Denis Zibarev, 1996
PS: Did you cracked Netscape? ;)