How can I protect my hard drive to writing to it absolutely?

Answer 1

WHAT?
I recommend the Adult Education grammer classes.
If you figure out how to ask a question, you may get real answers instead of guesses.
If you want to make sure none of your files can get deleted or changed, password protect them.
If you want to completely erase everything so no one can recover it, take the drive out and melt it with a blowtorch.

Answer 2

You cannot. The purpose of the HDD (HarD Drive) is to continually write as data is being processed as you are accessing all the various and sundry programs every time you use the PC. Even if you are not actively using it, processes are running to keep it going until you are ready to resume processing data. Like web surfing, homework on MS Office, e-mail, games, YouTube, etc..

If the HDD stops writing altogether - your system is crashed, or not working - you will not be able to use your computer. Perhaps if you were to ask another question to detail exactly what it is you are having a problem with, we can help you more expediciously.

If you want to protect the HDD for security reasons; you will need to have some software on board:
Anti-Virus
Anti-Adware
Anti-Spyware
Anti-Rootkit
Firewall

You can get all of these for free at C/Net''s safe download site:
http://www.download.com/Security-Spyware/2001-2023_4-0.html?tag=dir

I can suggest what I use, but it may not be the best for your needs. Some are freeware, shareware, free trial, then paid subscription. Eveybody will have their own opnion as to what is best, but I have found that the end-user and the C/Net reviews on the above site have been very helpful in my final determinations.

Anti-Virus - Kapersky AV
Anti-Adware - Ad-Aware, Spyware Dr. I have both installed.
Anti-Spyware - HiJack This, Spybot Search & Destroy, Spyware Dr. i have all 3 installed.
Anti-Rootkit - WebRoot Spy Sweeper
Firewall - Zone Alarm

Answer 3

I don't think that there is an effective way to do this with windows. If it were a Linux or other Unix based machine you could prevent writing to the drive by mounting it as read only. However windows has services which run with administrator or system level permissions and will write to the disk without any user interaction.

You can however reduce a lot of reading and writing to the disk by turning off the indexing service for the drive in question.

To disable the indexing service, right click on the drive in Explorer and select "Properties" from the pop-up menu. In the first tab (General) at the bottom clear the check box labeled "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching"

Another option is to disable "simple file sharing." This will enable you to set permissions on files and folders on a per user basis. However this complicates sharing of files and folders on a network, and can be problematic.

It's hard to secure Windows.

Answer 4

add a second drive or partion to keep your files you want to lock . the operating system will need to be able to write to operate. then set up an account with no privleges and use it. good luck

Answer 5

your hard drive is not set up to being a "read only" drive, it's writes something about every second anyway.