toylet Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 I would like to hide 2 NTFS partitions from being detected by XP installation program, so that I could change the drive letter of the XP partition from J: to D:. Drive C: is Vi$ta. Yes, I am installing XP after Vi$ta (for some old projects).What are the best partition types (set via Linux fdisk) that could prevent WinXP installation program from seeing them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikinDutchman Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 (edited) Partition Magic can hide partitions. You can also edit partition tables manually but in that case you really need to know what you are doing. Edited November 29, 2008 by BikinDutchman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toylet Posted November 30, 2008 Author Share Posted November 30, 2008 Partition Magic can hide partitions. You can also edit partition tables manually but in that case you really need to know what you are doing.I believe PM merely set the of type of those NTFS partitions rather than doing something special or drastic.Which partition type then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Putting a "1" as first partition number type means "hidden":06 FAT16-> 16 Hidden FAT1607 NTFS -> 17 Hidden NTFS0b FAT32 CHS -> 1b Hidden FAT32etc .:http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.htmlYou don't need Partition Magic, grub4dos can boot the drive (ANY drive, CD, Stick, HD, floppy) and hide the partitions on-the-fly:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5187jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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