XP Home: maps logical drive letters to inactive primary partitions ?

[NumberOne29]

Hi all,

I never had a reply to my earlier post (below).

I want to prevent XP (explorer & disk management tool) from
assigning logical drive letters to hidden (inactive)
primary partitions.

How can I do this ?

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I just noticed someting strange about XP's explorer.

It displays hidden (inactive) primary partitions as logical drives,
starting above last CD-ROM drive letter.

As far as I knew, only one primary partition can be active (on the
first HD) at a time, making the other ones "invisible".

So how can Explorer display those supposedly hidden, inactive
primary partitions?

I would rather have the "other primary partitions" invisible to XP,
so that my other operating systems are "totally shielded" from it...

Can this be done?

 

[Richard Urban]

Hide the partition! I have 3 operating systems on 3 primary partitions. Only
the one that is booted will be seen. The others are there, but not visible
by the operating system. They are only seen in disk management where they
are noted as "Healthy - unknown". They are not given a partition designation
at all.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[NumberOne29]

Hi Richard,

That's my problem: how do I hide those partitions ?

Somehow they appear (and are accessible) in windows
explorer as logical drives!

All options for those partitions are "dimmed" in
disk management, all that is available is "delete
partition", which I obviously don't want to do!

 

[Richard Urban]

I can hide/unhide the partitions, at will, by using a boot manager (System
Commander) that has a hide option, for those partitions you choose to do so
with.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Ed Medlin]

I can hide/unhide the partitions, at will, by using a boot manager (System
Commander) that has a hide option, for those partitions you choose to do so
with.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

Also, PQBoot, a component in PowerQuest Partition Magic will do this for
unlimited OS's and partitions. Partition Magic is one of my "must have"
apps. The version I have is 8.0, I don't remember if earlier versions
contained PQBoot or not.

Ed