Recently we have come across wonderful application Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac OS X. It allows to use Windows applications under Mac seamlessly. We tested Rohos Disk and Rohos Mini Drive under Parallels (+winxp) and figured out that we don’t need to port Rohos Disk under Mac OS X :).
It works greatly under Parallels virtual PC!
Rohos Disk Encryption has a few command line options, so that the encrypted disk can be connected and disconnected by using shortcuts or a BAT file.
agent.exe "c:\My Documents\rdisk.rdi" /letter:Z: /log
or
agent.exe \_rohos\rdisk.rdi
Request a password to connect Rohos disk rdisk.rdi.
/letter:Z: – the drive letter it will be connected (optional)
/log – allows creating a log file (agent.log) when performing the operation. Only when the disk is mounted from a USB drive.
/password – allows specifying a password for Rohos disk
Second option would unmount the disk, which is located on the USB drive.
agent.exe /unmount:Z:
Disconnect Rohos disk Z:
agent.exe /unmount:ALL
Rohos will disconnect all of the Rohos drives.
Rohos Disk shortcuts
Rohos Disk Encryption allows creating a disk shortcuts on the desktop or any other place. When you double click this shortcut you will be prompted to enter a password to connect this Rohos disk.
On the screen shot you can see how to make disk shortcut for any Rohos disk using “Tools” menu:
After you created disk shortcut, you may find it on the desktop and edit properties to specify the drive letter it will be connected with:
Automatic disk off upon user idle time
A user also can automate Rohos Disk security, in other words automatically disconnect it after 30 minutes of user’s inactivity.
Here is a BAT file for this:
schtasks.exe /create /tn Turn_Off_Rohos_Disk_On_Idle /tr “\”c:\program files\rohos\agent.exe\” /unmount:R:” /sc ONIDLE /i 15 /ru “System”
where :
“/tn Turn_Off_Rohos_Disk_On_Idle” task name
“/unmount:R:” – disk letter to disconnect
“/i 15” – inactivity timeout in minutes.
“/ru “System”” – user name that will be used to execute the command.
The guide – How To Repair Rohos Disk – is a part of Rohos Disk Help files. The Rohos guide will help you to: Create Password Reset File, Recover encrypted disk if you lost your password, Restore encrypted partition on a USB flash drive is case of data corruption, Check rohos disk for errors, recover files from corrupted Rohos disk.
Rohos Disk Encryption new release from June 05 now allows more efficiently password protect your USB flash drive – with Virtual Keyboard. As the response to multiple users’ request we added Virtual Keyboard that enables the program’s user to safely enter a password without been traced by a key logger while working on a guest’s computer.
In the Rohos password access box there is a new button, clicking on which enables virtual keyboard.
And Autorun folder – all shortcuts in this folder will be automatically started when virtual Rohos drive is connected. Users can Save and Delete shortcuts there manually. If you don’t have this folder just create it.
These features are now available both in Rohos Disk Encryption and Rohos Mini Drive – wonderful tools to password protect and secure your mobile data.
Now the popular token ruToken can be used in Rohos Logon Key and Rohos Disk programs as a single Key for Windows (including Vista x86/x64) authentication, and for data protection on Rohos Disk. To read more in ruToken Project News…
Tesline-Service announces that now Rohos Disk and Rohos mini are available both for 32-bytes (x86), and for 64-bytes (x64 – AMD64, IA64) versions.
Disk driver is updated for Windows XP and Vista, thus has been worked out the issue of Rohos Disk functionality in 64-bytes versions of these operational systems.
Note: Rohos Disk current version, v1.19, is not compatible with old drivers. The program should be updated everywhere you use Rohos Disk.
The new version of Rohos Disk (1.18) includes new utility, Rohos Disk Browser. This enables you to open and view the contents of secret partitions on a USB drive on any other computer, even if you do not have administrative rights.
Rohos Disk can password-protect a portion of a USB flash drive, by creating a virtual encrypted partition. The partition is protected by a password, and can be opened on any computer. Now, even if you are in an internet cafe and have no administrative rights, you can still have read access to your secret partition with the help of the Rohos Disk Browser utility. This means that you can open any file and read any data. Naturally when you are at your home or office computer, you will still be able to work with your encrypted partition as usual.
On a strange computer you can always open your protected partition on the USB flash drive (in read-only mode) with the help of the Rohos Disk Browser utility. This makes it possible to open or copy only one particular file or directory, without granting access to every file.
This feature is enabled in a Rohos Mini Drive program – FREE and tiny USB drive encryption tool.
We’ve released a new beta version of Rohos Disk Encryption, our password protection app for USB drives and local drives.
Here’s the release notes:
The function allows increasing the size of the encrypted Rohos disk. The latest Rohos Disk v1.16 is already available for download.
We also added an important command – the Force error checking on the disk without Windows restart.
You can also see in the new release:
Fixed: Disk auto mount by sticking up the USB flash drive (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Rohos\EnableAutoMountByUSB).
Disk-on Notifications (located nearby the Clock) becomes automatically disabled after being shown 20 times.
