creating NTFS read-only volumes

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Don Griffiths

Hi,

the windows XP documentation on MSDN talks about
the added capability of using read-only NTFS filesystems.
The GetVolumeInformation has a return that gives
a flag for FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME, but
nowhere can I find any information on creating
read-only NTFS filesystems. In particular, I need
to know if it is possible to convert a readable NTFS
filesystem on an IDE partition to read-only.

Alternatively, can anybody direct me to a more specific forum for locating
this sort of information.

thanks

Don
 
Burn a CD.

Prior to Windows XP, NTFS would fail to mount volumes on read-only media, but now it does, and it returns the new FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME flag for the GetVolumeInformation API on such volumes.
December 2001 issue of MSDN Magazine
 

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