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    Emerald Saint Guest

    I want to hide (or write protect) a disk partition from Vista

    On earlier versions of windows before Vista there were ways to hide a hard
    disk partition from Windows. I can't seem to do it in Vista. I have
    utility called Ranish Partition Manager which I use to tinker with the
    partition table. Also there is the MountedVolumes registry key that I can
    delete and make Windows 'forget' it ever saw the partition. Those methods
    always worked before. Not with Vista. The only way to hide from Vista is
    to remove the partition from the partition table. That's not what I want to
    do. Some opportunistic programs might claim the space. Some person might
    assume its free space and use it. This computer is HP Pavilion laptop. I
    am trying to hide the Recovery Partition - or else make it 'read only' or
    'write protected' - same thing.

    Does anybody know how to hide the recovery partition on this HP Pavilion ?



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    Carey Frisch [MVP] Guest

    Re: I want to hide (or write protect) a disk partition from Vista

    If you have either Windows Vista Business or Ultimate edition:

    How To Hide Your Hard disk Partition
    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/341263...isk_partition/


    On earlier versions of windows before Vista there were ways to hide a hard
    disk partition from Windows. I can't seem to do it in Vista. I have
    utility called Ranish Partition Manager which I use to tinker with the
    partition table. Also there is the MountedVolumes registry key that I can
    delete and make Windows 'forget' it ever saw the partition. Those methods
    always worked before. Not with Vista. The only way to hide from Vista is
    to remove the partition from the partition table. That's not what I want to
    do. Some opportunistic programs might claim the space. Some person might
    assume its free space and use it. This computer is HP Pavilion laptop. I
    am trying to hide the Recovery Partition - or else make it 'read only' or
    'write protected' - same thing.

    Does anybody know how to hide the recovery partition on this HP Pavilion ?

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    Adam Albright Guest

    Re: I want to hide (or write protect) a disk partition from Vista

    Deleting a Registry key or messing with the partition table is risky
    business. You can still "hide" a partition in Vista but they made it a
    little awkward. Here's a video that shows how to proceed.

    Haven't tried it myself. Other things I did change in Group Policy
    didn't "take" with Vista just ignoring the changes later.

    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/341263...isk_partition/

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