Hidden Drive / Partition

Posted: 09-03-2003, 09:39 AM
I am creating a hidden FAT partition to hold a recovery
image, after removing the drive letter it is hidden in XP
and can be seen by a boot disk which is exactly what I
want however, when I restore the image XP see's the drive
assigns a drive letter and then asks me to re-start.

Is there any way to keep it hidden after imaging?

Regards,
Daryll

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Hidden Drive / Partition
Posted: 09-03-2003, 10:57 PM
Daril,
As far as I can remember the 'hidden' recovery
partitions are usually created by changing the partition
table's partition-type byte. whenever you want to access
it, you need to reset this information.
As for your situation, the image on the recovery
partition must be having a drive letter at the time of
the backup procedure. Since the disk information is
stored with the system in this case, you need to setup
this up before imaging it.

Regards,
mosza

>-----Original Message-----
>I am creating a hidden FAT partition to hold a recovery
>image, after removing the drive letter it is hidden in
XP
>and can be seen by a boot disk which is exactly what I
>want however, when I restore the image XP see's the
drive
>assigns a drive letter and then asks me to re-start.
>
>Is there any way to keep it hidden after imaging?
>
>Regards,
>Daryll
>
>.
>
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