Guest Richard in AZ Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 There is lots of information on how to hide a drive partition letter and make it a hidden drive. But once you do that there seems to be no way to restore (or assign) a drive letter back to that partition to make it visible. Any ideas, suggestions or comments?
Guest Ron Badour Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Drive letter hide and restore I guess it depends on how you hide the partition. BootIt NG or Partition Magic, for example, make it fairly easy to hide and unhide a partition. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "Richard in AZ" <me@mailinator.com> wrote in message news:uqkoLxA6HHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > There is lots of information on how to hide a drive partition letter and > make it a hidden drive. > But once you do that there seems to be no way to restore (or assign) a > drive letter back to that partition to make it visible. > > Any ideas, suggestions or comments? > >
Guest Bob I Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 Re: Drive letter hide and restore TweakUI. Richard in AZ wrote: > There is lots of information on how to hide a drive partition letter and make it a hidden drive. > But once you do that there seems to be no way to restore (or assign) a drive letter back to that > partition to make it visible. > > Any ideas, suggestions or comments? > >
Guest FeMaster Posted August 28, 2007 Posted August 28, 2007 Re: Drive letter hide and restore "Richard in AZ" <me@mailinator.com> wrote in message news:uqkoLxA6HHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > There is lots of information on how to hide a drive partition letter and > make it a hidden drive. > But once you do that there seems to be no way to restore (or assign) a > drive letter back to that partition to make it visible. > > Any ideas, suggestions or comments? > Not sure what you are trying to do?? Hide the drive from others, and restore the drive letter so you can access it when you want to?? Sounds like a LOT of work for nothing... Use Windows "Disk Management". 1) Remove the drive letter. 2) Create a folder somewhere on your computer, give it whatever name you want. 3) Use the second option under 'Add drive letter or path', "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder," and browse to the folder you just created. 4) "Hide" this "folder" where ever you want on your computer. Use this folder (link) to access the partition any time you like. a) If you want to "hide" it even better, right-click it and choose properties. Change the icon from the now hard drive image to whatever you want, choose a misleading, BUT BELIEVABLE, name for it. The only way someone could find this is if they are fairly computer proficient and know how to map drives from within the Drive Manager, or are really lucky and stumble upon your "link" to the drive. That of course also depends on whether or not they even know the partition exists, and would have any reason to go looking for it, or how to access it. The drive (partition) will not show up under "My Computer," nor under any other type of "save" or "load" dialog/prompt box, as an accessible drive. In order to same to it, or load from it, you would need to browse to your sneakily created "link" to the partition/drive. Hope that helps... I know others will appreciate the ability to hide their porn collections from their significant others...
Guest Ritter197 Posted September 4, 2007 Posted September 4, 2007 Re: Drive letter hide and restore In Partition Magic 8 there is a simple way to do this. You can make it Visable and you can assign a Drive letter. I have it. "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ub31rdM6HHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > TweakUI. > > Richard in AZ wrote: > >> There is lots of information on how to hide a drive partition letter and >> make it a hidden drive. >> But once you do that there seems to be no way to restore (or assign) a >> drive letter back to that partition to make it visible. >> >> Any ideas, suggestions or comments? >> >> >
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