Hard drive write blocking in Windows

From: Sawyer, John H. (JSawyerat_private)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 08:57:37 PST

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    Hey Everyone.
    
    I am just learning about computer forensics on Windows platforms.  The
    problem I have run into is not being able to block writes to hard drives
    while in Windows.  I found PDBlock and NTFSDOS (read-only) but they both run
    in DOS.  I have a demo version of EnCase and when it runs, it says the hard
    drive is not mounted read-only.  Are there any utilities that run in Windows
    or load before Windows so that a drive can be mounted read-only but still
    accessible to programs such as EnCase?  I was hoping to find a utility for
    Windows instead of mounting the drive read-only in Linux and then using
    Samba to share the drive to Windows.
    
    Thanks in advance,
    
    
    -jhs
    
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    John H. Sawyer
    Computer Support Specialist
    Environmental Horticulture Dept
    University of Florida
    jsawyerat_private
    
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