Re: Can you really hide a GPT partition?
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 3:19 pm
You may not be able to hide a partition, but how about hiding the hard drive?
My Asrock motherboard has a feature to be able to programmatically provide/remove power to two devices. so at midnight, the backup drive is powered on, and a backup of my boot drive is made, and then after the backup, the device is powered off. The drive power status is retained in Asrock bios, It is not visible to anything, even between boots. But it is not totally secure, as someone could look at my backup program and determine the command sequence to activate one or both drives, or even hack the Asrock bios. But only good for os's that support hot plug and play
I'd be interested in knowing if there is an external encrypted and secure device that could control power the same way.
My Asrock motherboard has a feature to be able to programmatically provide/remove power to two devices. so at midnight, the backup drive is powered on, and a backup of my boot drive is made, and then after the backup, the device is powered off. The drive power status is retained in Asrock bios, It is not visible to anything, even between boots. But it is not totally secure, as someone could look at my backup program and determine the command sequence to activate one or both drives, or even hack the Asrock bios. But only good for os's that support hot plug and play
I'd be interested in knowing if there is an external encrypted and secure device that could control power the same way.