Preventing XP from using certain disks as temp disks?

[FirmamentFX]

Hi guys,

Is it possible to prevent XP from using certain disks as temp disks when it installs updates - it seems to choose them quite randomly. I have a couple of disks that I really don't want to be touched by the OS (but I need to have read access to them).

Cheers!

Martin

[GrofLuigi]

I think it chooses the disk with highest amount of free disk space.

Maybe try with permissions for the entire drive (give write rights only to yourself). But that can be very risky if your installation b0rks or you transfer the disk to another computer.

There must be other ways - but I can't think of any right now, sorry.

GL