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Richard in AZ
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      26th Aug 2007
There is lots of information on how to hide a drive partition letter and make it a hidden drive.
But once you do that there seems to be no way to restore (or assign) a drive letter back to that
partition to make it visible.

Any ideas, suggestions or comments?


 
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Ron Badour
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      26th Aug 2007
I guess it depends on how you hide the partition. BootIt NG or Partition
Magic, for example, make it fairly easy to hide and unhide a partition.

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"Richard in AZ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> There is lots of information on how to hide a drive partition letter and
> make it a hidden drive.
> But once you do that there seems to be no way to restore (or assign) a
> drive letter back to that partition to make it visible.
>
> Any ideas, suggestions or comments?
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Bob I
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      27th Aug 2007
TweakUI.

Richard in AZ wrote:

> There is lots of information on how to hide a drive partition letter and make it a hidden drive.
> But once you do that there seems to be no way to restore (or assign) a drive letter back to that
> partition to make it visible.
>
> Any ideas, suggestions or comments?
>
>


 
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      28th Aug 2007

"Richard in AZ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> There is lots of information on how to hide a drive partition letter and
> make it a hidden drive.
> But once you do that there seems to be no way to restore (or assign) a
> drive letter back to that partition to make it visible.
>
> Any ideas, suggestions or comments?
>



Not sure what you are trying to do?? Hide the drive from others, and
restore the drive letter so you can access it when you want to??

Sounds like a LOT of work for nothing...

Use Windows "Disk Management".

1) Remove the drive letter.
2) Create a folder somewhere on your computer, give it whatever name you
want.
3) Use the second option under 'Add drive letter or path', "Mount in the
following empty NTFS folder," and browse to the folder you just created.
4) "Hide" this "folder" where ever you want on your computer. Use this
folder (link) to access the partition any time you like.
a) If you want to "hide" it even better, right-click it and choose
properties. Change the icon from the now hard drive image to whatever you
want, choose a misleading, BUT BELIEVABLE, name for it.

The only way someone could find this is if they are fairly computer
proficient and know how to map drives from within the Drive Manager, or are
really lucky and stumble upon your "link" to the drive. That of course also
depends on whether or not they even know the partition exists, and would
have any reason to go looking for it, or how to access it.

The drive (partition) will not show up under "My Computer," nor under any
other type of "save" or "load" dialog/prompt box, as an accessible drive.
In order to same to it, or load from it, you would need to browse to your
sneakily created "link" to the partition/drive.

Hope that helps... I know others will appreciate the ability to hide their
porn collections from their significant others...


 
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Ritter197
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      4th Sep 2007
In Partition Magic 8 there is a simple way to do this. You can make it
Visable and you can assign a Drive letter. I have it.

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> TweakUI.
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> Richard in AZ wrote:
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>> There is lots of information on how to hide a drive partition letter and
>> make it a hidden drive.
>> But once you do that there seems to be no way to restore (or assign) a
>> drive letter back to that partition to make it visible.
>>
>> Any ideas, suggestions or comments?
>>
>>

>

 
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