OS Dedicated drive?

[TidaLWaveZ]

Is there a way you can dedicate a drive to the OS and make it inaccessible and basically invisible from the OS?

[You_are_a_cunt]

no

[Bittenfleax]

Is there a way you can dedicate a drive to the OS and make it inaccessible and basically invisible from the OS?

Hmm not sure, what are you trying to do and why? There maybe other ways instead of making the drive inaccessible. 

[The Official Czex]

Install the OS to one drive then hide it using a registry edit?

[TidaLWaveZ]

The reason I ask is that I didn't think this was possible but saw a screenshot from another post that made me think otherwise.

 

For a while I've wanted to keep a small, fast, drive as the OS drive and not let anything else access the drive.

 

Right now I have a Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 that I've been using as the OS drive.  I never intentionally put things on this drive unless I am forced to, but over time files just seem to creep there way onto the drive.

[Djole123]

Is there a way you can dedicate a drive to the OS and make it inaccessible and basically invisible from the OS?

Make the harddrive read-only?

[mcammidge]

128GB is more then enough space for an OS as long as you make sure during installs that you point to a secondary drive for install location. Of course some software will use areas such as programdata to store info (plex is one as it uses the this to store its database).

 

To be honest the best thing to do is to point at the secondary drive, for programs like steam you can create a library folder on that drive aswell, and if you notice a build up on the C: use a program like tree size free to see what is taking up the space.

 

You can also alter certain folders such as your default download folder to a secondary drive, but again until you check where the space is getting used its difficult to give you the best idea of what to change.

[bking]

The reason I ask is that I didn't think this was possible but saw a screenshot from another post that made me think otherwise.

 

For a while I've wanted to keep a small, fast, drive as the OS drive and not let anything else access the drive.

 

Right now I have a Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 that I've been using as the OS drive.  I never intentionally put things on this drive unless I am forced to, but over time files just seem to creep there way onto the drive.

 

Clearly a Windows system.  You simply can't prevent Windows and Windows apps from writing to the OS drive without massive effort.  The filesystems are not segmented the way Linux is.