May be anyone bothered about this *feature* as it is present from begning of windows.
But for me untill i used to with linux feels me this as a security problem
Those who use windows doesnt care about automatically mounting the harddisk paritions(unless securty paranoid, like me) becoz it is so in windows
In linux it doesnt mount the partitions automatically either on demand or via cofiguration files
(new versions of linux' seems to be following windows' way of automountinf partitions, though)

is it possible to do the same in windows too ??

i know , after install u can remap the drive letters or remove them, but the point is that to disable it completely??

i mean when i plug a hdd and start the comp it automatically mounts the partitions present i new hdd (if fat ot ntfs)

i want that under my control,ie i want to manually select the partitions to mount during boot or on access request for credentials.



i hope evryby understood the problem
thanx

On Windows Server 2003 it's easy. It defaults to NOT mounting new partitions.

I use this to enable it:



(for your needs, I guess you could replace enable with disable.)


However, XP's diskpart is different and I don't think it is possible with it.

Places to look for what you want:

Disk management
Group policies
Services <- now that I think about it, this is not a good place - it would disable mounting ALL partitions, including the system one, so Windows wouldn't boot.

I think it's possible in XP too. Don't know about Vista.

GL

not only the new one but REST of all except the system partition (aka C:)

Well, one can argue that all partitions are new to a freshly installed Windows.

Anyway, it automounts the partitions that are on the same drive as system partition. That's what I have seen.

GL

Ya, really , i agree that.

btw in XP this is not supported