Hello Bob,
Thank you for using newsgroup!
For more information about Diskpart utility, please refer to:
300415: A Description of the Diskpart Command-Line Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415/en-us
Thanks & Regards,
Ken Zhao
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center
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| Thread-Topic: DiskPart - Unhide a partition
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| Something I have noticed:
| 1. I have 3 primary partitions and 2 logical partitions on disk 0.
| 2. Partitions 1 & 2 are hidden and partition 3 is active and not hidden.
| 3. I boot Windows PE and start DiskPart I will see partition 3 is
associated
| with a volume and assigned drive letter "C".
| 4. Partitions 1 & 2 are not associated with any volume and therefore can
not
| be assigned a drive letter either.
| 5. DiskPart - detail partition - will show partition 1 & 2 as" Hidden:
Yes"
| and "Active: No".
| 6. detail partition of #3 will show "Hidden: No" and "Active: Yes".
|
| So far so good, but here is where DiskPart doesn't seem to work.
|
| In an attempt to boot from partition 1, I use DiskPart to select
partition 1
| and make it active. DiskPart will allow this, but it will not unhide the
| partition (as "attributes clear hidden" only works on volumes; not
| partitions).
|
| Selecting partition 3, I may hide this partition using "attributes set
| hidden", but the result is the following:
|
| "list volume" changes the "Info" column from blank to "Hidden" for all
| unhidden volumes on disk 0 (partition 3 and the two logical volumes).
|
| running "detail partition" of partition 3 shows "Hidden: No", "Active:
No",
| "Info: Hidden".
|
| Starting PartitionMagic, I can see that DiskPart's attempt at hiding
| partition 3 didn't work.
|
| So the question is: What does the DiskPart field "Info Hidden" mean? It
| certainly doesn't hide the partition as far as the partition table is
| concerned.
|
| ---
| Bob
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