Can a Drive be made Totally Static?

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Talal Itani

Hello,

I am trying to find a way to make a drive static. Basically, protect the
drive from formatting, from writing to it, from changing files, from
deleting files. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks
 
Hello,

I am trying to find a way to make a drive static. Basically, protect the
drive from formatting, from writing to it, from changing files, from
deleting files. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks
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Remove it from your machine, and bury it in the back yard!
 
Well if you make you hard drive totally static, it will be goners for sure
and cannot be reformatted ever, or ever used again. It would be dead!!

Hide your windows xp cd, so no one can format your drive and make yourself
up a password and prevent anyone from accessing your files on your computer.
 
There are times when Windows *needs* to modify files by writing to the
drive, often "behind the scenes" with no explicit action taken on your
part.

Just FYI, Windows will not allow the drive it is installed on to be
formatted, while Windows is running.

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Curt

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| Hello,
|
| I am trying to find a way to make a drive static. Basically, protect the
| drive from formatting, from writing to it, from changing files, from
| deleting files. Is there a way to do that?
|
| Thanks
|
|
 
If this is a storage drive only you can use NTFS permissions to allow
Read Only on it. To format storage drives you need Administrator
rights, do not grant these rights to users.

John
 
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