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Making a Windows Folder Truly Read Only
I have an external hard drive. One of the root folders has the subfolders and files I want to protect. There are up to two levels of sub folders within this root folder. I want to set the permissions ...
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Is there a way to mount an NTFS partition read-only on Windows without Diskpart?
I have searched for a while and haven't found anything. Other than using diskpart to set a readonly volume bit. Which is persistent and modifies the partition table, which is not an option for me. And ...
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Disk mounted as read-only, but defined as read-write in fstab
I'm having an issue with my computer; I recently installed Deepin Linux, based on Debian, and I'd like to use my internal ntfs formatted HDD on it.
I made an fstab entry to auto-mount it at startup, ...
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How to mount a read only HDD (NTFS volume) and retrieve files?
I have some backups which I need to retrieve files from. They are huuuge (8 TB drives).
Because I am not allowed to modify ANY BIT on the disk, I have a adapter that makes the HDD 'read-only'. ...
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Mount Windows partition with read-write permission if possible
I'm looking for equivalent of -errors={continue|remount-ro|panic} option which is available for i.a. mount.nfs4 but not for the mount.ntfs.
I need it to mount Windows 10 partition (via /etc/fstab) ...
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Make internal HD read only
I would like to make a HD read only to prevent any real changes(except turning off read only). The reason is the hard drive seems to get corrupt for no reason because I never write to it except in ...
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Mac made a flash drive "read only" in Windows?
I use a 128GB flash drive to move my work between several PCs (all win XP sp3) and a Mac with OSX 10.6. The drive is formatted as NTFS, the Mac uses the Paragon NTFS driver for read/write access.
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How to mount an NTFS partition read-only in Windows?
I feel like this is a really simple and fundamental function that Windows should have, but so far Google has been telling me it isn't possible. How can I mount an NTFS partition read-only in Windows?
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Will mounting my disk as "ro" make it completely read-only?
I've got a dualboot installation with Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 Ultimate. I've got 2 drives with the following partitions set up:
500 GB drive
2 partitions:
C:/ 320GB NTFS (Has Win 7 on it)
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