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How to make a partition on external storage read-only? And revert to normal?

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Mar 15, 202616849 views
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Sometimes, I have to give my external storage someone else. But, I am worry about files and folders which accidentally deleted, moved, changed etc... Therefore, it is enough that data on the disk can be readable. Writing support not desired. So, 1) I want to make the partition readonly to prevent d…

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Everett's solution for NTFS volumes How to mount an NTFS partition read-only in Windows? Switch off "automount" by running Connect disk to Windows (do not mount the disk) Run Enter Enter (where X is the correct volume number from the previous comman…

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