Re: removing drive letters in windows xp]

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Joe,

WinXP sees which as unformatted? The FAT/FAT32 ones? Or the ones housing
other OS's? Don't do any disk management under WinXP, as it will affect
those partitions in the other systems as well. Did you use a partitioning
program or boot manager? This is one where you *really* should be.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Joe Farruggio" > wrote in message
...
>
> I have multiple operating systems ( on different partitions) on my
> system ( Windows 98, Windows XP , Linux, OS/2 and ECS). Window 98 did
> not see the partitions that were not formated as fat or fat32. Windows
> XP sees these partitions as unformatted ones. Will i destroy these
> partitions if i delete the drive letters under win xp or will the other
> operating systems still see them?

[Test Man]

Just would like to add that Windows 98 won't see any other partition that is
not FAT/FAT32, while Windows XP will see them, but because they are not
FAT/FAT32/NTFS, it won't correctly identify what they are, hence it coming
up as "unformatted". So don't delete them at all. You really need
Partition Magic 8 to be able to correctly identify the partitions and to
manage them.

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" > wrote in message
.. .
> Hi Joe,
>
> WinXP sees which as unformatted? The FAT/FAT32 ones? Or the ones housing
> other OS's? Don't do any disk management under WinXP, as it will affect
> those partitions in the other systems as well. Did you use a partitioning
> program or boot manager? This is one where you *really* should be.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
> Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Joe Farruggio" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > I have multiple operating systems ( on different partitions) on my
> > system ( Windows 98, Windows XP , Linux, OS/2 and ECS). Window 98 did
> > not see the partitions that were not formated as fat or fat32. Windows
> > XP sees these partitions as unformatted ones. Will i destroy these
> > partitions if i delete the drive letters under win xp or will the other
> > operating systems still see them?
>
>

[Joe Farruggio]

The drives seen as unformatted are HPFS (0s/2 operating system) and i
don t want to delete the drives i just want to remove the drive letters
so windows xp does not see them at all. Is this possible?

Test Man wrote:

>Just would like to add that Windows 98 won't see any other partition that is
>not FAT/FAT32, while Windows XP will see them, but because they are not
>FAT/FAT32/NTFS, it won't correctly identify what they are, hence it coming
>up as "unformatted". So don't delete them at all. You really need
>Partition Magic 8 to be able to correctly identify the partitions and to
>manage them.
>
>"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" > wrote in message
.. .
>
>
>>Hi Joe,
>>
>>WinXP sees which as unformatted? The FAT/FAT32 ones? Or the ones housing
>>other OS's? Don't do any disk management under WinXP, as it will affect
>>those partitions in the other systems as well. Did you use a partitioning
>>program or boot manager? This is one where you *really* should be.
>>
>>--
>>Best of Luck,
>>
>>Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
>>Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
>>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>>Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
>>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>>"Joe Farruggio" > wrote in message
...
>>
>>
>>>I have multiple operating systems ( on different partitions) on my
>>>system ( Windows 98, Windows XP , Linux, OS/2 and ECS). Window 98 did
>>>not see the partitions that were not formated as fat or fat32. Windows
>>>XP sees these partitions as unformatted ones. Will i destroy these
>>>partitions if i delete the drive letters under win xp or will the other
>>>operating systems still see them?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Joe,

No, it's not, unless you use a boot manager that can "hide" them from that
installation.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Joe Farruggio" > wrote in message
...
> The drives seen as unformatted are HPFS (0s/2 operating system) and i
> don t want to delete the drives i just want to remove the drive letters
> so windows xp does not see them at all. Is this possible?
>
> Test Man wrote:
>
> >Just would like to add that Windows 98 won't see any other partition that
is
> >not FAT/FAT32, while Windows XP will see them, but because they are not
> >FAT/FAT32/NTFS, it won't correctly identify what they are, hence it
coming
> >up as "unformatted". So don't delete them at all. You really need
> >Partition Magic 8 to be able to correctly identify the partitions and to
> >manage them.
> >
> >"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" > wrote in message
> .. .
> >
> >
> >>Hi Joe,
> >>
> >>WinXP sees which as unformatted? The FAT/FAT32 ones? Or the ones housing
> >>other OS's? Don't do any disk management under WinXP, as it will affect
> >>those partitions in the other systems as well. Did you use a
partitioning
> >>program or boot manager? This is one where you *really* should be.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Best of Luck,
> >>
> >>Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
> >>Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
> >>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> >>Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
> >>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >>Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
> >>
> >>"Joe Farruggio" > wrote in message
> ...
> >>
> >>
> >>>I have multiple operating systems ( on different partitions) on my
> >>>system ( Windows 98, Windows XP , Linux, OS/2 and ECS). Window 98 did
> >>>not see the partitions that were not formated as fat or fat32. Windows
> >>>XP sees these partitions as unformatted ones. Will i destroy these
> >>>partitions if i delete the drive letters under win xp or will the
other
> >>>operating systems still see them?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >

[Keith Miller]

You can hide drives so they don't appear in explorer using TweakUI or Group Policy. Is that what
you want to do?

Keith

"Joe Farruggio" > wrote in message ...
> The drives seen as unformatted are HPFS (0s/2 operating system) and i
> don t want to delete the drives i just want to remove the drive letters
> so windows xp does not see them at all. Is this possible?
>
> Test Man wrote:
>
> >Just would like to add that Windows 98 won't see any other partition that is
> >not FAT/FAT32, while Windows XP will see them, but because they are not
> >FAT/FAT32/NTFS, it won't correctly identify what they are, hence it coming
> >up as "unformatted". So don't delete them at all. You really need
> >Partition Magic 8 to be able to correctly identify the partitions and to
> >manage them.
> >
> >"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" > wrote in message
> .. .
> >
> >
> >>Hi Joe,
> >>
> >>WinXP sees which as unformatted? The FAT/FAT32 ones? Or the ones housing
> >>other OS's? Don't do any disk management under WinXP, as it will affect
> >>those partitions in the other systems as well. Did you use a partitioning
> >>program or boot manager? This is one where you *really* should be.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Best of Luck,
> >>
> >>Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
> >>Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
> >>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> >>Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
> >>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >>Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
> >>
> >>"Joe Farruggio" > wrote in message
> ...
> >>
> >>
> >>>I have multiple operating systems ( on different partitions) on my
> >>>system ( Windows 98, Windows XP , Linux, OS/2 and ECS). Window 98 did
> >>>not see the partitions that were not formated as fat or fat32. Windows
> >>>XP sees these partitions as unformatted ones. Will i destroy these
> >>>partitions if i delete the drive letters under win xp or will the other
> >>>operating systems still see them?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >