I am putting a PC in a public space and want to stop
anyone from being able to reformat the hard drive. Is
there a way to do that?

One possible way is to use a non-printable character in the C: volume label
name.

Other possiblitiy: Make the general account a "limited user". Only
Administrator type accounts can format C:.

Y.

"Anthon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am putting a PC in a public space and want to stop
> anyone from being able to reformat the hard drive. Is
> there a way to do that?

Anthon, don't worry about it. You can't format C: from within XP if it's the
system and boot drive. You would need to use a bootdisk or
boot from a WinXP CD in order to format C:
"Anthon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:016101c3d627$98c2fcd0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am putting a PC in a public space and want to stop
> anyone from being able to reformat the hard drive. Is
> there a way to do that?