Re: restrict Floppy drive access

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From: Simon Geary (simon_geary_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:10:34 -0000

To disable a USB floppy you would disable usbstor.sys, but this would also
prevent you from reading from the disk as well. It doesn't sound to me like
you are approaching the problem from the correct angle though. If your goal
is to prevent people running programs they bring in to work or stealing
sensitive data then disabling write access to a floppy drive is not going to
help as users would still be able to bring in USB flash drives or USB CD
writers. Leaving USB drives enabled is not compatible with your goals, so I
think you have to either disable USB altogether or accept the risks.

"Stephen" <Stephen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F58EDD7C-F963-435F-B252-5694E1795203@microsoft.com...
> The floppy we are going to be using is a USB floppy, do you think that reg
> key would still work? Where is that reg key located?
>
> Thanks
> Stephen
>
> "Simon Geary" wrote:
>
>> You can use Group Policy to disable floppy drives altogether by disabling
>> flpydisk.sys and sfloppy.sys but I don't think you can make them read
>> only.
>> XP Service Pack 2 did contain a new registry key that allows you to
>> restrict
>> USB drives to read only but I doubt you could do the same with a floppy
>> drive.
>>
>> "Stephen" <Stephen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F050190A-3CAA-4C5B-AC1E-BE64686ACFF7@microsoft.com...
>> >I would like to allow access to the floppy drive but for read access
>> >only.
>> > Is this possible with GPO's or a reg edit?
>> > --
>> > Stephen
>>
>>
>>

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