by TeraByte Support » Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:00 pm
yes, they will be there, because they are in the MBR.
The hide option on a partition, prior to 2K or after and including 2K for a
partition that has always been hidden from Windows, will cause a hidden
partition to not be accessed (no volume available - even when in the MBR).
Once it's been introduced, it remembers it if a partition exists there (with
any file system id) at the same place and size (and will make the volume
available even if no drive letter), at least until something like the disk
signature is changed or it's location altered. That's that "detected
hardware changes" you used to get after resizing and such on the first
reboot.
"mjnelson99" wrote in message news:2850@public.bootitbm...
I have 3 partitions w/o a drive letter including the
manufacturer's restore partition. Two small ones do not have
a drive letter and all show up in Disk Management but they
ARE there. There is no data on the 2 small unlabeled partitions.
On 7/27/2012 2:53 PM, TeraByte Support wrote:
> See #5 http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=517
>
> If there was a drive letter assigned to it, hiding (changing the file
> system
> ID) won't make a difference, that started in Win2K. You have to remove
> the
> drive letter.
>
> "mjnelson99" wrote in message news:2848@public.bootitbm...
>
> My own experience is that "hiding" just does not work in
> NTFS Windows.
>
> Go into Computer Management & I'll bet you will see all the
> "hidden" stuff there. The hidden or unallocated does not
> usually show in Computer.
>
> The manufacture's restore partition is hidden and Win 7 X64
> & X86 does see it from Computer Management.
> Mary
>
> On 7/27/2012 1:37 PM, Bob Coleman wrote:
>> Turps wrote:
>>> Thanks Brian & Dr Teeth. Your answers work (not that I thought that
>>> they wouldn't!).
>>>
>>> Until now, also with BING, I have used limited primaries. It seems that
>>> with limited primaries, in Boot Edit, the MBR table is automatically
>>> filled
>>> in. I have just tried adding a new boot item on a limited primary PC,
>>> and
>>> they are all showing in the MBR table. So seeing them there, I used to
>>> hide
>>> as required.
>>>
>>> With unlimited primaries just inserting the ones required and the rest
>>> are
>>> automatically hidden is much easier, now I know how.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Turps
>>
>> And as implied in one of the responses above, leaving partitions out of
>> the MBR gives greater assurance than hiding that the partitions will not
>> be "seen" by the current OS.
>>
>>
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