Any way to stop win2k from writing to disk?

[ThisIsMatt]

I want this other system I have to completely refrain from writing to disk (it's crunching for DC). 2k insists on writing to the following files:

ntuser.dat.log
NTUSER.DAT
SYSTEM.ALT
system

Are there certain services I can (safely) stop to keep it from writing to disk?

 

[Nothinman]

Nope.

You need the embedded version of XP to even think about doing something like that.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Why? That's lame...

 

[Nothinman]

Cause it's Windows. It's not made to run from non-writable media, contact MS and see what they tell you.

 

[CTho9305]

You can run win98 from a CD-R.... read this

The WinNT registry must be writable AFAIK.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Maybe I should have been more clear. I don't mind it booting from disk and everything else normal...I just don't want it writing when the system is more or less idle, I want the hdd to spin down after a short time

 

[bsobel]

Grab regmon from sysinternals.com and see what it writing to the registry so often, from that we *might* be able to shrink down the service list a bit
Bill

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Originally posted by: bsobel
Grab regmon from sysinternals.com and see what it writing to the registry so often, from that we *might* be able to shrink down the service list a bit
Bill

Looks mainly like services/etc accessing TCP/IP keys...which I sorta need it to do...oh well :/

 

[Nothinman]

Most DC projects have Linux clients, why not see if you can run it under something like Knoppix? The OS boots off the CD so you can be sure the hard disk won't spin up.