Can we change a drive/removable drive permission level?

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I want to change permission level of the removable drive(USB) to be readonly for everyone and full control to the current user of the windows. There are many tutorials available on internet for changing of file, folder, directory,permission level. But i could not find any source to change a permission level of a USB. Can anyone help me to sort this out?
We can change or add new user, we can change permissions and add new permission in windows using manual method mean by using GUI of windows. But how can we do this in C#.NET?

Posted 4-Oct-15 0:13am

Shahzad Mirza

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Richard MacCutchan 4-Oct-15 8:37am

I think you can only do that through Security Policy settings.

Shahzad Mirza 4-Oct-15 9:13am

Do you think FileSystemAuditRule Class could help me for doing this?

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Shahzad Mirza · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-04T05:58:00

I just solve my question just using this
Link and including this namespace System.Security.Principal.

I just used below code to change permissions on the root folder (e.g. "G:\")

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DirectorySecurity sec = Directory.GetAccessControl(path); // Using this instead of the "Everyone" string means we work on non-English systems. SecurityIdentifier everyone = new SecurityIdentifier(WellKnownSidType.WorldSid, null); sec.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule(everyone, FileSystemRights.Modify | FileSystemRights.Synchronize, InheritanceFlags.ContainerInherit | InheritanceFlags.ObjectInherit, PropagationFlags.None, AccessControlType.Allow)); Directory.SetAccessControl(path, sec);