[workaholic]

well i recently realised that i have got into a habit of saving my downloads on my desktop and forgetting to move them from there
so i was thinking for the solution and just thought to make my boot drive as read only so that i couldnt save anything there
so is there any way by which i can make a drive read only?

[ozziebeanie]

To stop you saving anything to your drive the best solution that will make you save else where e.g. your flash drive or external drive is put a sheriff card in your computer, that way when you reboot, what ever was placed in your computer by you or others (this includes viruses) will be gone.

You will also have to save emails to an outside source also or set the sheriff card to just do that to the boot drive and not a second one.

There are different ones on the market and I am sure since the ones I installed on the public library ones they might have more options for you now than then.

Just one idea anyway.

http://www.hdd-sheriff.com/products.htm

This link is just one type

[workaholic]

well first of all thanku for replying.. and secondly what i want is to prevent data to be saved on my boot drive i.e. c: in my case

i have 3 more partitions on my disk

so will installing a sheriff card make all the data written on the disk remove it on rebooting?

"set the sheriff card to just do that to the boot drive and not a second one."

i did not understand this ^^^^

[JohnWill]

Why not just make periodic automatic backups?

I think you'll find the Windows boot drive can NOT be R/O and still function.

[ozziebeanie]

Sorry did not realise that you have drive partitions, thought you where talking about more than one hard drive. I have not installed a sheriff card with a drive that has partitions, so have not looked to see if it could stop not saving stuff on other partitions, but it is a solution if you don’t want anyone to save stuff on your drive.

Backups, (as JohnWill suggested) and saving your stuff else where or getting into the habit of it rather than yourself or others cluttering up your hard drive is the better way.

I assumed you wanted to make it so nothing could be saved at all and on reboot it would be all gone, on that drive which is why I suggested the sheriff card.

I hook up a drive to the computer every week or how ever often (some things I save as they update on a flash drive, important stuff that is) and only run programs on the main drive it’s cleared of anything and I save it at the most once a week.

My bad in that I did not ask you more questions.

[workaholic]

thanku ozziebeanie and johnwill for your suggestions...