Hard Drive Format Prevention

[twhite87]

Hi Guys,

Could anybody tell me if there is a way to add an extra level of protection against hard drive formatting. I was trying to format some old external drives the other day and accidentally formatted my main external hard drive. This was of course backed up, but i wish to stop this in the future with something like a password or similar.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[sk66]

You can password protect a drive... many drives come with software to do it, but pretty much any encryption software will have that option.

 

[Deadlock]

Before formatting, unplug all extra external & internal drives. Particularly useful in unfamiliar OS's which do not make drive identification easy, or batch formatting operations.
Slow down and read and check things 5 times over - identifying which drives are live in your format tool and which can be formatted. Sounds simple, but works.

 

[neil_g]

Measure twice, cut once.

 

[J Veitch]

If all you've done is format, you can usually recover from that with the correct software...