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Program to write protect USB thumb drive?!

 
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Program to write protect USB thumb drive?!
tootypegs
9 Oct, 2007 - 01:56 AM
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Hi,

Basically i would like your help or if you could just point me in the right direction. I am fairly new to C++ but i have been given the task to create a program that write protects USB thumb drives. To do this i was planning on changing the registry key that enables write blocking through a simple C++. I did think this would be quite easy but boy WAS I WRONG!! I have borland C++ builder but im going round in circles. I have researched into this on the internet and visited the registry refernce site but i just cant seem to get a decent start. Can anyone give me any tips or help on how to do this? any tutorials or ANYTHING lol, im totally open for any suggestions or help. I have a tight deadline but hopefully with your help i can give this program a good go.

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9 Oct, 2007 - 08:31 AM
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Interesting challenge. I am not too sure the market is in demand for such software since most drives come with a physical mechanism for protecting write access, but I did manage to find you a C# project which implements write protection for USB. I know you wanted C++, but hopefully you can take a gander at the C# and see how they did it, so then port it over to something in C++.

Write protection for USB Drive in C#

Hopefully this proves useful. Good luck! smile.gif
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9 Oct, 2007 - 09:06 AM
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The interesting thing on this subject, from my opinion, is that the write protection would need to take place on the USB drive, & not the computer that it is hooked into. So where would a program come into play? If you wrote a program that doesn't allow for someone to write to a device, but removed the device & took it to another machine, it could then be written to. Or is this not what you are looking to do?

I would think that you would need to format the device with ntfs or something else that can do file level permissions.

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Thanks for your help guy, appreciate it lots. Basically, it mite seem a bit useless and crazy but a little software write blocker would be quite useful for some of the tasks that i am am undertaking. I was wondering if i just tried to crawl before i can walk haha and just ask for ur advice on lil bits at a time.

Basically i have located the registry key in which i want to change

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
“WriteProtect”=dword:00000001

Can anyone point me in the direction of any information i can use to code this operation? I have already done a fair bitting of digging but i just cant seem to gather any info or tips that can help me?
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You are going to use an 3 API calls to accomplish this
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RegOpenKeyEx(); This opens the key we want to write to
RegSetValueEx(); This sets our value
RegCloseKey();     This closes the key
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QUOTE(no2pencil @ 9 Oct, 2007 - 10:06 AM) *

The interesting thing on this subject, from my opinion, is that the write protection would need to take place on the USB drive, & not the computer that it is hooked into. So where would a program come into play? If you wrote a program that doesn't allow for someone to write to a device, but removed the device & took it to another machine, it could then be written to. Or is this not what you are looking to do?

I would think that you would need to format the device with ntfs or something else that can do file level permissions.

Best of luck!



Dear no2pencil
This is exactl what I am looking for
I want the write protection should take place on the USB drive, & not the computer that it is hooked into
Can you help me by telling how can this be done throuh C# or .Net
I shall be very thankful if you could help me out in achieving this
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