Ok peeps need help with hiding recovery drive

Hi all
Right i need a little help here. I have installed 7 on my laptop that came installed with vista. As a result i now have a 1.5 gig partition called winre in my computer. But as my kids will be using this laptop i dont want them to interfere with this drive as i know it contains information for a restore. So really my questions are this
How can i hide this drive and
does anyone think that i can put the drivers ive downloaded for my laptop onto this partition along with the recovery files without damaging it, it has over 1 gig space free which would suit my driver storage perfect.


Many thanks

hi
yes i would like to hide it completly

I posted and answer to this in another topic along the same lines.

me said:

or, you can remove the drive letter associated with it and Explorer will no longer show it in the list of drives.

See this mini tut I just made for ya.



This is the image of my current drives in Explorer

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This is how it looks in Disk Management (start --> right click Computer --> Manage --> Disk Management)

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Right click on the partition you want to hide and select Change Drive Letter and Paths... - then select the Remove button as shown below:

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Warning you'll get about programs that might need the drive (safe to ignore since it is used by another OS)

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Additional warning you *may* receive if W7 has been monitoring the drive for anything

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No drive letter attached anymore in Disk Management

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And no more drive in Explorer

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Enjoy.

Of course, it is also best if your kids are standard users only and have no access to things like the management console so they can add it back and / or format the partition....

Also, it helps if they don't have the ability to boot off the CD ROM or UFDs so they can load *nix and do the same thing....