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Can you make a 2TB back up drive read-only so it's just used for reading?

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c627627

c(n*199780) Senior Member
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Feb 18, 2002
Either using a jumper or in BIOS or in Windows, can you back up your data on any of these three 2TB hard drives then make sure no changes are made to backed up data by disabling writing on it so that it can actually be used on another computer without someone else making changes on it, unless they took deliberate steps to circumvent the protection.

In other words, just to prevent accidental erasing/changing of backed up data:

• Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green WD20EARS
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=120

• Hitachi 2TB Deskstar 5K3000
http://www.hitachigst.com/internal-drives/desktop/deskstar/deskstar-5k3000

• Seagate 2TB ST32000542AS
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD&locale=en-US&pf=1
 
I don't believe there are any jumpers or features you could enable to do this. I haven't heard of anyone needing it.
 
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