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How do you make a partition "protected"?
My Windows 7 laptop came with a D drive called HP_RECOVERY. The computer has 3 other hard drive partitions.
I recently booted up the computer using an Ubuntu Linux Live CD, which lets me run Linux without installing it on the hard drive. It has support for NTFS and FAT32, so it showed me my other 3 Windows partitions (C drive, SYSTEM partition, and HP_TOOLS partition). However, it didn't show me the HP_RECOVERY partition for some reason. I've heard that Ubuntu doesn't show protected partitions, so I guess that's why it's not showing the HP_RECOVERY partition.
I just want to know out of curiosity's sake - how do you protect a partition in Windows? I don't see any way to do that in the Disk Management console. And is it possible to unprotect a partition?