artichoke

I have a somewhat similar problem. I am working on my daughter's laptop the HD of which was trashed, likely by a virus (all files were crosslinked!!). I am trying to create a dual boot XP system on the same physical HD (on different primary partitions). I have installed XP-Home (the default system), and XP Pro (for recovery) and all functions well. I now want to hide the XP Pro partition from the XP Home partition so as if another virus attack takes place if would not be affected. Partition Magic running from the XP-Home hid the XP-Pro partition but when I tried to boot from XP Pro I got to a Windows XP screen and it just hung there. I had to unhide the XP-Pro partition again it for it to run. I also tried to limit access to the XP-Pro partition by limiting share and security rights, but the settings are greyed out. Any ideas? TIA Arti