I just installed a new Samsung pro 128gb ssd. After all the drivers and other update drud on it im already down to 65gigs. Add my wife to that and the 1tb storage I have won't be touched unless I do everything for her. Is there a way to "lock" the hard drive to restrict things from being loaded onto it? And does the windows updates have to be on the same driver as the os?
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Restricting a hard drive
- Thread starter Bohicab
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Windows updates are bolted onto the OS so they are on the SSD anyway.
You can manually move desktop, documents, pictures etc locations, to move them from the SSD, Right click on their "name" in the start menu and properties, you can move them there.
My Music, Pictures, Documents, Video and Downloads as well as Desktop sit on my 2nd drive, easiest backup, and if you format you lose nothing
One thing you can do is reduce your pagefile, and turn off hibernate, hibernate takes 1GB of space from the SSD for every 1GB RAM you have.
You can manually move desktop, documents, pictures etc locations, to move them from the SSD, Right click on their "name" in the start menu and properties, you can move them there.
My Music, Pictures, Documents, Video and Downloads as well as Desktop sit on my 2nd drive, easiest backup, and if you format you lose nothing
One thing you can do is reduce your pagefile, and turn off hibernate, hibernate takes 1GB of space from the SSD for every 1GB RAM you have.
This. The best thing you can do is assign her a User Account and yourself the Administrator, thus limiting her or anyone else somewhat. Perhaps you can further tweak some settings in Group/Local Policy, but disk quotas are pretty much it.
You can also use junctions to move her user account onto the storage drive - there are guides out there. You would want to make sure that there is at least one user admin account with its user account on the boot drive in case you can't see the 1TB drive, as otherwise you may not be able to log in.