Completely hide a harddisk partition

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Peter

Hi.

The harddrive was divided in two partitions (C and D
partitions) for the purpose of a dual boot system. Window
XP PRO is in both partitions and installed as new
installation on each using NTFS. How can Partition D be
COMPLETELY HIDDEN to Windows XP PRO in Partition C and
viceversa? I tried Sharing D:\ and then Denying full access
in group Everyone to it in Partition C. The access to D:\
is denied but it is still visible.

The reason behind this is that Partition D will be use as a
"test ground" and don't want to have any access or affect
anything on Partition C and viceversa.

Thanks for your help.
 
You need to use Partition Magic.
Make sure you understand how permissions work in XP or you will lock
yourself out of your system for good. Denying access to the Everyone group
means just that - basically no users are able to access the protected disk,
folder or file including your user account which you probably want to be
able to access it with.
 
Peter,

Try going to Disk Management ( Start/Control Panel/Administrative
Tools/Computer Mangement/Disk Management and then right click on the
partition in question and choose change drive letter and path. Then
remove the drive letter for that partition. Do this for each of the
bootable partitons. (Boot to C and remove D. If C still works without
D then Boot to D and remove C.) That should do what you want but I
caution you I've never tried exactly what you are trying to do.

Good luck.
 
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