How to stop Windows from asking to format Linux partitions?

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A USB stick has a GPT partition table and several partitions. The first partition is a FAT32 Microsoft basic data partition, which has always worked fine and still works fine. Windows used to see only the first partition, which was great.

 

Something changed. Now when the USB stick is inserted, Windows asks if the user wants to format all their Linux partitions. Of course it's easy to know that the answer is no, but it's also easy to make mistakes which lose all the data, and it's

also easy for users to complain that they have to answer a bunch of popups. Also it's easy for the Computer Management utility (mmc.exe) to confuse itself and stop responding.

 

Each partition in a GPT table has a partition type and some attribute bits. Windows should see partition type

0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 and avoid asking if the user wants to format it. Windows should see the attribute bit for "hidden" and avoid asking if the user wants to format it. Windows should see the attribute bit for "don't

automatically assign a drive letter" and avoid asking if the user wants to format it.

 

But no, this is Windows. Windows assigns drive letters to all the "hidden" "don't automatically assign a drive letter" Linux partitions, and Windows asks the user for each partition if the user wants to format it.

 

Is there anything that can be set in the partition attributes to make Windows shut up and just ignore the partitions that it's supposed to ignore?

 

To clarify, I want to set these partitions (except the first one) so that every Windows system on the planet will stop asking the unwanted questions. If I make some setting in the registry of my Windows PC, that might fix my PC but it won't stop other

users from getting the unwanted questions from their Windows PCs.

 

 

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