FRiC 9 Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 (edited) Hi, I'm using device control to block removable drives, I blocked "disk storage" which seems to work fine for everyone except one particular machine where it blocked the second partition of the internal hard drive. Am I missing something obvious or should I choose another type of device instead of "disk storage"? Portable device maybe? The computer is Windows XP 5.1.2600 running ESET Endpoint Security 6.5.2132.2. Thanks in advance for any help. Edited December 14, 2018 by FRiC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 5,069 Posted December 14, 2018 Administrators Share Posted December 14, 2018 It is only possible to block whole devices (e.g. hard disks), not only particular partitions. Check the system Device manager and post a screen shot of where the troublesome disk appear in the device tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRiC 9 Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 There is only one HDD in the computer: ST3500418AS as attached. C works normally and D is access denied. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRiC 9 Posted January 29, 2019 Author Share Posted January 29, 2019 Update to this issue: I couldn't figure out the problem, so I just created a rule to whitelist the HDD. I noticed afterwards that the HDD appears to Windows as a removable device, i.e. it has a removable icon in the task bar and can be removed like a USB drive, even though in the device manager it appears as a normal HDD. Which is probably why ESET sees it as a removable device and tries to block it, but since the first partition is the boot drive and likely can't be blocked, it ended up blocking the second partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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