Protecting HDD

briancheng1998 · December 4, 2013

Hi,

I have this SSD bootdrive, and I wish to have it password locked to avoid someone or some program to write it cause it's 64GB and I just want it to run the windows. Is there any way to have it locked with a password?

Bryan.

hentai · December 4, 2013

Go into your BIOS and find anything that relates to Hard DrIve protection.

7omRavenclaw · December 4, 2013

You always have the built-in option of BitLocker Encryption that comes with some version of Windows. But I do not recommend to lock your windows drive, since many softwares needs to read or drive to it, such temporary files, programs configurations and so on.

xox · December 4, 2013

If you have Windows 8 Pro or Windows 7 Ultimate, you may use BitLocker.

However, for your case, I'd just avoid using your SSD for anything except for booting off of anyway. I don't know of any way of changing the directory for default programs, however, a trip to control panel won't do any harm

SSL · December 4, 2013

Looks like you want to set permissions for your OS drive; I don't think password protection or encryption will do what you need.

Keep in mind that many programs may need to store settings, registry entries, etc, on the system drive; as such, preventing all access could prevent some software from working correctly.

You should be able to install most programs in a custom location (separate drive). Just don't expect the boot drive to go completely unmodified.