Re: Hard Disk Partition

[Ron Martell]

Rob > wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a dual booting system, two copies of xp. I have 3 partitions. The two os partitions are ntfs formatted, one is fat32 and is a shared partition. I am happy for the shared fat32 partition to be visible when in either xp but how can I hide the othe
r partition to make it unwritable and not have a drive letter while in each?
>
>I hope that makes sense!
>
>Many Thanks in advance...
>
>Rob
>

You will have to install a third party Boot Manager program and
configure it so as to hide the non-booting operating system
partitions.

I use Boot Magic which is part of Partition Magic from PowerQuest (no
owned by Symantec). Another good product is BootItNG (shareware with
a 30 day trial) from www.bootitng.com

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

[Alex Nichol]

Rob wrote:

>
>I have a dual booting system, two copies of xp. I have 3 partitions. The two os partitions are ntfs formatted, one is fat32 and is a shared partition. I am happy for the shared fat32 partition to be visible when in either xp but how can I hide the othe
r partition to make it unwritable and not have a drive letter while in each?

To do that you really need an external third party boot manager. I use
BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full
functional trial)
That allows you when adding an 'instance' to the boot menu,. to specify
exactly which partition to boot and which ones shall be hidden from it.
Also to adjust the order in which the positions will appear in the
partition table when it is booted - that avoids the need to adjust the
entry in its boot.ini to match if you start by 'cloning' a partition
into fresh space


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)