Removable Access Tool (a.k.a. Ratool) is a simple to use portable freeware application which aids in the control of external storage devices such as USB flash drives, CD/DVD drives, as well as floppy, tape and WPD devices. Ratool can disable USB storage access or enable write protection on all USB flash drives, thus preventing data from being modified or deleted, protecting your confidential data from being copied by others.
There are many such tools available online, but they are often easily circumvented. For example, if you use one of these USB disablers to disable a flash drive, someone could simply use another tool and enable it again. This means these tools are not actually protecting your USB ports, which is why we created Ratool. By using Ratool, you won’t have to worry about this, as other tools cannot easily break Ratool’s protection.
Ratool v1.4 What is new: (Wednesday , 20. May 2020)
1. [Fixed] – Ratool Password protection can be cracked – (critical)
2. [Fixed] – Ratool can’t block CD&DVDRom device on Windows Home and single language
3. [Fixed] – Ratool can’t block WPD device (Smartphone etc.) on Windows Home & Single lang.
4. [Fixed] – Ratool can’t Unblock USB ports Which blocked by Bitlocker
5. [Fixed] – Ratool settings can’t apply immediately in Windows Home and single Language
6. [Fixed] – If there is no TEMP Folder, Ratool Doesn’t work (Error line 10.)
7. [Fixed] – Prevent Installation of USB devices feature (White List) Doesn’t work
8. [Fixed] – Ratool GUI is too small
9. [Added] – x64 Version, Some code improvements and minor BUG fixes
Ratool allows the following actions:
1. Block USB Storage Devices: disables all USB storage devices access to your PC
How to block all USB devices except yours (White List Mode)
a. Plug in Your USB device (You can plug in more than one)
b. In the Options menu, click “Prevent Installation of USB devices”
Currently plugged in devices will be excluded (allowed), all other USB devices will be blocked.
2. Allow Read Only: Makes USB storage devices Read-Only. Write access is disabled. In certain situations, you may wish to prevent data from being written to the device.
3. Allow Read & Write (Default): resets everything back to normal so that USB storage devices function normally.
4. In the Options menu, you can choose to block or unblock removable drives, allow or deny access to them, or disable Autorun (a security measure preventing malware from using the Autorun feature to launch itself). There is also an option to show hidden files on the drive, and one to safely remove hardware.
How to Block Smart Phone USB connection
1. Choose Options – WPD devices
2. Click Block device , Then you can not access your mobile phone which is connected by cable
5. Under the Settings menu, you can set a password to prevent unauthorized changes.
6. Also under Settings is the option to switch languages (English, German and Turkish are pre-installed). The Translate option allows you to edit the language and translate the GUI into your own language
The Translate window allows you to translate each row individually
1. Select your own language (this is important for setting the correct language ID)
2. In the Your Translation field, type your translation. (for example, if your language is Japanese, type Japanese words)
3. If you wish, you can save the translation
4. Click the ‘Copy to Clipboard’ button
5. Finally, click the “Send translated data” button to send us your translation
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 11 , Windows 10 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 8 , Windows 7 (both x86 and x64)
Windows Vista and Winsows xp – Not fully featured (both x86 and x64)
Supported Languages: English , Turkish , German , Japanese , Persian , Vietnamese , Russian , Ukrainian , Hungarian , Greek , Arabic , Simplified Chinese , Chinese Traditional , Swedish , French , Polish , Spanish , Italian , Korean , Serbian , Portuguese , Portuguese (Brazilian) , Indonesian , Uyghur , Thai , Slovenian , Hebrew , Bulgarian , Dutch (Nederlands) , Romanian , Lithuanian
File: Ratool_x64.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: 696ee9b9e12b9657c75f5fa4b60c7d5e
SHA1: f1bcc7b5b1736a46446d7855ec3d3f87fd39423e
File: Ratool.exe │ Virustotal
MD5: 9c67c0c65b1e045662cbe9ade83742e7
SHA1: bebe8c2a2bc0eb74d18ff2e82987303c49a81e20
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Ratool uses the Group Policy (GPO) setting provided by Windows for the blocking option in the relevant feature.
Make sure that your external disk is plugged in before making the relevant setting.
The tool is working fine with all type of External HD and Flash drive, EXCEPT for one Seagate 1 TB External HD which is detected everytime it is inserted even after locking all the usb ports. Any reason or explaination??
Ask option to add disable usb after a lapse of time, 10 minutes, 1 hour, for example…
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You can use the Hide From Uninstall List program.
Run the program and uncheck the program you want to hide.
Web Link …
is there a way to prevent the software from being uninstalled from control panel
hi,
could you add some syslog messages.
I need use something like kiwi syslogd for read logs of the machine, I use myusbonly now and I can read syslog from it I want to shange to a free tool like ratool but i cannot read syslogs from it.
Question, Ratool has an option to ask me for a password when inserting a USB device, CD/DVD, Micro USB or Smartphone?
Hello, we moved with our computers. Now I cannot find the right mouse and keyboard. The computer is starting but I cannot enter anything.
Hi, first I’d like to thank you for such a great tool. Also I’d like to ask if there is any way I could manually add in the registry my usb flash drives in order to create a whitelist since every time I need to add a new one, the old ones will be lost.
Thanks!!
Please Use password Hint
How to retrieve the password if you forget it
Thank you very much, I had a problem (the computer can reads the usb, but the programs in it were not opening, giving permission error),and fixed it with Ratool, you saved it from formatting, thank you very much.
(Abi çok sağolun bilgisayar usbleri okuyor ama içindeki programları izin hatası verip açmıyordu sizin programınızla düzelttim format atmaktan kurtardınız çok teşekkürler.)
Saludos, lo mejor que veo para el control de los puertos y dispositivos.
Creo deberian agregar alguna funcionalidad que emita alertas a los administradores, quizas envío de email al detectar intentos de violar los parametros establecidos, o algún tipo de logs.
Igual esta genial.
Installed ratool on windows server 2012. Can’t access USB drives (1TB SSD) after reboot. How do I cancel or remove access denied settings?
I found a software from Web Link …
It tells so… maybe if you can add this function in RATOOL.
Execute Mode – By disabling this option, execute access will be denied for all executable files on all USB removable drives used on the current computer, for all user accounts. This ensures a plus of security to the system against dangerous and malicious software, like worms, backdoors or password stealers. This setting is not available in Windows Vista.
THanks, Dario Romagnoli
Just use Password Hint
How to retrieve the password if you forget it