Stopping HD from being accessed

I've had to return my G5 iSight to the dealer for repairs. There is a lot of personal data on one of the partitions on the internal drive and to stop access to that partition, I set up an account for the dealer to use, and as well, I stopped it from being visible on the dealer's desktop by allowing only the Administrator (me) access to the disk.
That worked well. But I thought I'd try to erase the partition from within the dealer's account by using Disk Utility. Sure enough, the partition appeared and Disk Utility seemed to allow me to erase it.
How can I lock a partition so that it is password protected and nothing can be done to it from within a dealer's account?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions

There's very little you can do to prevent access to that partition as a whole. You can't even rely on your login password, since that can be reset by anyone with a system disk. What I would advise is to keep all sensitive data in an encrypted file of some sort. Encrypted disk images work beautifully for this purpose. I have one that contains all my passwords, account numbers, financial information, etc. The password is long and is not remembered in any keychain.
If the disk image option doesn't work for you, there are all kinds of commercial and non-commercial encryption options. Just search somewhere like MacUpdate or VersionTracker.

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