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    Win7 SystemRecovery partition visible

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by keisuke_z, Dec 20, 2009.

  1. keisuke_z

    keisuke_z Notebook Guru

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    Hello!

    I was mucking around in Disk Management (Win7 64-bit) to clone my HDD onto a new drive, and in all my wisdom, changed the active partition from whatever it was (the hidden partition?) to C:. That caused a wonderful error, and I was luckily able to restore it using the Win7 DVD to boot recovery tools.

    However, after that, I can now see "System Reserved" as a drive when I open Windows Explorer, so the recovery partition is no longer hidden... is there any way to hide it again? I'm not sure whether there are any concerns/issues if Windows ever needs to use it..

    Thanks!
    Z
     
    keisuke_z, Dec 20, 2009
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    deeastman Notebook Deity

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    deeastman, Dec 20, 2009
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