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How to prevent installers from writing to the root of disks?
Some installers create temporary folders not in temp, but in the root of the disk. Moreover, not only the system disk, but in some incomprehensible way. The computer has a system SSD, a terabyte file cleaner and a one and a half terabyte archive disk. The archived one sleeps most of the time, except when some installer (and we are not talking about nameless handicrafts, but about serious companies like Microsoft) starts waking up this disk to create a folder there and not delete it after installation. And this is wasted time and extra noise.
Is it possible somehow to forbid installers to write to the root of disks in general or to forbid writing to a specific disk. At the time the folders are created, the installer is already asking for privilege escalation, so UAC and policies are useless...
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primo cache, you can create a buffer on the SSD, where the recording from the HDD will be redirected with a write delay, say for an hour and not write to the HDD /
but this will not help, since the installers pull the disks not only to write, but more to analyze the free space to select a disk for temporary files. That is, I believe, the disk will still be pulled out of sleep anyway.
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