Hello,
Can a usb flash drive be write protected if it doesn't come with a switch on it to do so?
Also to avoid writing to the flash drive, I could just drag the folder over to the computer im working on to use the app, then delete that folder and the computer would be as it was before I was there right (aside from possible temporary things, like RAM)?
Is there a way to tell when a flash drive is getting close to no longer working? If I use the above method, the only time that something might get written to my drive without me telling it to, would be a virus from the host computer right?
Thank you - Jason
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No, there's no way to do it without a write protect switch.
Yes, the PC will be the same, mostly (there are things written to prefetch, etc within Windows that happen whenever you run any app from anywhere).
No, there is no way to tell when a flash drive is failing. It simply starts failing (write errors, read errors, etc, etc).
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Hello,
Thank you very much for answering.
I just want to confirm that dragging the file to the computer as I mentioned, would prevent the writing to the usb thumb drive please.
Thank you - Jason