I've tested this quite thoroughly, and documented the steps and results. Sorry for taking so long, I was swamped with work. I'll do some more testing later, maybe I'll find different behaviors when locking drives on dynamic disks. Then I found an article somewhere in technet that said setting as readonly only one partition out of two on one drive is possible only on dynamic drives. If I set partition 1 to readonly, it would make partition 2 readonly partially. Then I remembered the oddity I came across last time I've played with it. When I locked the drive it blocked writing to the volumes as well (I was able to write to the volumes, but it if I unplugged and replugged the disk everything would be like before my writing). I've made some tests (and some recalling), and the results are somewhere between strange to inconsistent. I'm not sure exactly how far, but I think you can still write to files, since its only the MBR that's locked, not the MFT. List Disk Īlas, it would also lock your drive for writing. The only possible way I know is by locking the MBR. (I do of course check the name before handing out the drive to anyone, but I don't know, someday I might forget, so. So, I ask: is this possible? if yes, how? I have been looking around the drive's properties window, but no luck in finding this option. Usually, I have no problem about this kind of thing, but since this particular USB drive is for work-related purposes, and I'm not sure they understand the concept of boundaries, I'm trying to lock or password-protect my usb drive's name (to 'my drive', or something), so I can avoid.

I also have friends/roommates who are prone to computer-pranks, like the common 'facejacking', and, among other things, change the display name of usb drives (and other connectable devices) to stupid things, like 'THIS IS VIRUS', or other stuff that would probably get censored if I typed them. I have a usb drive that I use a lot to share files between people I with whom I have a professional relationship with, like when sharing a in-work paper with a professor, per example. Info: I am running windows 7 home Premium

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