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    Cant hide Recovery Partition from Vista

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bilsch, Apr 19, 2008.

  1. bilsch

    bilsch Notebook Enthusiast

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    This computer is HP Pavilion laptop. I am trying to hide the Recovery Partition - or else make it 'read only' or 'write protected' - same thing. On earlier versions of windows before Vista there were ways to hide a hard
    disk partition from Windows. I can't seem to do it in Vista. I have
    utility called Ranish Partition Manager which I use to tinker with the
    partition table. Also there is the MountedVolumes registry key that I can
    delete and make Windows 'forget' it ever saw the partition. Those methods
    always worked before. Not with Vista. In WinXP, if you make the partition type 81h XP will ignore it. Not Vista. The only way to hide from Vista is
    to remove the partition from the partition table. That's not what I want to
    do. Some opportunistic programs might claim the space. Some person might
    assume its free space and use it.

    Does anybody know how to hide the recovery partition on this HP Pavilion ?
     
    bilsch, Apr 19, 2008
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  2. glatzfront

    glatzfront Notebook Geek

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    MBR partition types

    NTFS = 07
    NTFS hidden = 17

    FAT32 = 0B
    FAT32 hidden = 1B

    81 = Linux
    Don't have 81h on my list
     
    glatzfront, Apr 21, 2008
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    glatzfront Notebook Geek

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    To hide it from Windows Explorer you can remove the drive letter but this isn't a hidden partition, just hidden from Windows Explorer.

    I guess the same would apply to the following. I hide Vista from XP Pro by creating a reg key:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\Offline

    Value name: \DosDevices\D:
    Type: REG_DWORD
    Value data: 1
     
    glatzfront, Apr 21, 2008
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