How do I hide a partition

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I decided to reformat my laptop. It had a restore partition on it. When I
reformated the 2nd drive, it now shows both the c: (restore partition) and
the D: (reformatted windows partition). I want to hide the c: drive and
make the d: drive the c: drive.

How do I do that without wiping out the c: drive?

Thanks
 
Boe said:
I decided to reformat my laptop. It had a restore partition on it. When I
reformated the 2nd drive, it now shows both the c: (restore partition) and
the D: (reformatted windows partition). I want to hide the c: drive and
make the d: drive the c: drive.

How do I do that without wiping out the c: drive?

Thanks
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People usually use a boot manager to do this (PQMagic,
Acronis Disk Director). You could also do this:
- Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk
(www.bootdisk.com)
- Run ptedit.exe
(ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities)
- Identify the partition you wish to hide.
- Change its type from whatever it is at the moment to its
hidden equivalent, using the type table provided by ptedit.

ptedit is a tool for experts. Fortunately any change to the
partition type is reversible, provided you do not change anything
else and provided you note in detail WHERE you made the
change and WHAT the type was prior to the change.
 
Thank you very much! Are there any that I can run from within windows? No
floppy on my system.
 
You can run diskmgmt.msc to remove the drive letter
from the problem partition but you cannot use Windows
to hide it.

Both of the commercial packages I gave you will run from
within Windows.

To run ptedit.exe, you would have to make a bootable CD
from the Win98 boot disk I mentioned. To do this you need
a machine with a floppy disk drive and a CD burner. You
could also install your own disk in that other machine for the
sole purpose of running ptedit.exe. Disconnect the original disk
before starting . . .
 
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