Unvisible partitions

agaton · Post by **agaton** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 5:51 pm

I have two WinXP Systems on two partitions
instaled. One for Internet, other for Audio.
How can I make one of them UNVISIBLE (hidden) in other System?

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at0m · Post by **at0m** » Wed Aug 28, 2002 9:38 pm

You could hide driver (remove the letter assigned to the space) in Device Manager, Disk Management, partition properties.

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 6:44 am

PartitionMagic has a built in utility for this called BootMagic. That's what I use. When you boot your PC, you will see a BootMagic screen which allows you to select which partition to boot from. The other partition is hidden automatically. I highly recommend it!

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 11:50 am

So do I! I too use Boot Magic and I can say it’s an extremely reliable software you can count on.

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 4:08 pm

Are you using bootmagic with two winxp ntfs partions (two partitions, two drives) With automatic hiding?
Cus for some reason I can't seem to make it work, (too much wine probably) can anyone produce a drunk mans guide for me?

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at0m · Post by **at0m** » Tue Sep 03, 2002 11:48 pm

I do not hide the partition. I've told SFP on both boots to get devices, presets, modules, projects etc. in the same directory on one of both OS drives. Saves me lots of diskspace, PLUS I don't have to start synchronising preset lists from one SFP install to the other...

Anybody tried installing SFP in the same SFP folder for different OS?

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 7:58 am

I'm using WinME so I can't comment on WinXP issues.

I have two physical hard drives installed in my system (one on IDE Channel 1 and the other on IDE channel 2). I partitioned drive 1 so that there were two OS partitions (one hidden, one active) along with some other partitions for program files, etc. Drive 2 is mainly just a data drive for audio work. I would not try to create these partitions across separate drives. Seems to me I tried that once and it didn't work although I don't recall the reasons why.

One OS partition is for audio work. The other is for general purpose work. I installed WinME into both partitions (one lean, one mean). Then installed bootmagic and now I can select which partition to boot from at start-up. I used partitionmagic to set up all the partitions on both drives (starting with clean drives helps, believe me).

I installed separate copies of SFP onto Drive 1 - one for the audio OS and one for the general purpose OS. I wanted to keep them separate. I don't do any audio work on the general purpose OS except listen to MP3's and such.

Don't know if this helps or not. Good luck. Keep trying! You'll get it and be glad when you do. It works great!

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 11:03 am

Solved my problem....
Well the problem with WinXp is that ordinary plain hiding of partitions doesn't work, XP still detects them and assigns a drive letter.

A program called "boot-us" http://www.boot-us.com
will hide XP partitions so XP can't see them unless you want too. I bought a copy today, and its so far proved very useful.
Costs about $15, which is a bargain compared to all the others I tried with no or very little joy.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 11:16 am

XP will indeed find the partition and asign a letter to it. But once that is done, you could go to
Computer Management,
Disk Management,
right-click a partition,
'Change Drive Letter and Paths',
and 'Remove' the currently assigned drive letter.
Not?

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 4:25 pm

Yeah it does work but you can't remove the letter of a boot volume, or if it has a page file on it, and I think even when I did manage to remove the C drive from the music partition, the remaining boot partition still said D: and couldn't be changed.

This boot manager took 2 mins to install and 15 install WinXP again. And was so much more worth the $15 to sort it so quickly.

Others I tried were;
Partition magic/boot magic
OSL2000
XOSL2000
Built in windows boot manager

None of these did the job properly, and Im not prepared to pay $100 to try HyperOS.