is the best way remove the drive letter to hide a partition ?

[drugo]

Hi

is really the best way to remove the drive letter to hide a parition ?
for example in a second hard disk i have another operation system (microsoft)

is the best way?
are you sure w7 will not see it?

because i run mydefrag ,an amazing defrag and it see the volume i did hide

thanks

 

[Emilispk]

Are you trying to hide your partition from windows explorer? Or from partitioning software?

 

[DavidE]

Removing the drive letter will hide the partition for many things such as Windows Explorer.
Windows still can "see" the partition, and it will be displayed if you look at Disk Management.

What do you mean by "run mydefrag ,an amazing defrag"...
Is that some 3rd party defrag utility you use?

 

[drugo]

Are you trying to hide your partition from windows explorer? Or from partitioning software?

hi

i'm tring to hide a partition or an hard drive from windows 7 , i don't want w7 could see it

Removing the drive letter will hide the partition for many things such as Windows Explorer.
Windows still can "see" the partition, and it will be displayed if you look at Disk Management.

What do you mean by "run mydefrag ,an amazing defrag"...
Is that some 3rd party defrag utility you use?

hi my defrag is a freeware _http://www.mydefrag.com/

thanks

 

[Emilispk]

And why are you trying to hide it?

 

[drugo]

And why are you trying to hide it?

i don't want it can mess up the other os

for example have w7 on an hard disk and w8 in another hard disk, it's just an example ,i guess it's better if they don't see each other

 

[gregrocker]

Yes, the best way to hide another multi-booted OS from the booted one is to remove its drive letter in Disk Mgmt. Drive Letter - Add, Change, or Remove in Windows 7 - Windows 7 Forums

This does not hide the drive from disk maintenance software, or affect the hidden OS's ability to boot if needed. It only hides it from the booted OS's Explorer which needs a drive letter to see any partition's files.

I recommend Puran Defrag Free Edition which offers a boot time defrag that gets at system files, which no defrag run from Windows can do. If you select Intelligent Optimizer on the Additional Operations tab it also moves most-used programs and files to the outer edge of HD for faster reads.

 

[DavidE]

To fully and completely isolate each OS from another OS, you would need have each OS on a different HD(SSD), and disconnect the OS HD(s) not being booted.
To me that's not practical for everyday use with a multi-boot PC.

What I do is create System Backup Images and keep them offline.
That way if one OS (or anything) causes problems for another OS partition, I can restore from the offline backup.
Offline backups are also a nice insurance policy for recovering for Malware...

 

[Emilispk]

You can try:
1.Open Control Panel
2.Change "View By: Large Icons"
3.Administrative tools
4.Computer Management
5.Under "Storage" click on "Disk Management"
6.Select the partition you want to change/hide
7. Right click it. In the context menu click "Change Drive Letter and paths..."
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Hope this helps somehow.
I dont really see the point of hiding the partition from other OS, maybe just for Virus protection?
And if you hide that partition, I think the MBR might not find the OS partition and not boot it.
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And if you just want to hide it from the Windows explorer:
1. Open up regedit.exe by using the start menu search box, and then browse down to the following key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

2.The NoDrives key most likely does not exist by default, so you’ll need to create it with right-click \ new 32-bit DWORD and name it NoDrives.
3.Now Right click it, and select Modify
4.Select the Decimal(Radio button)
5.In the "Value data:" you need to write a number corresponding to the drive letter.
EXAMPLE:
Drive Letter Number
A 1
B 2
C 4
D 8
E 16
F 32
G 64
H 128
In order to see these changes, you’ll need to restart explorer.exe, which you can do easily from Task Manager or the longer way by just logging off and back on.
And so on
Hope this helps!

 

[drugo]

Yes, the best way to hide another multi-booted OS from the booted one is to remove its drive letter in Disk Mgmt. Drive Letter - Add, Change, or Remove in Windows 7 - Windows 7 Forums

This does not hide the drive from disk maintenance software, or affect the hidden OS's ability to boot if needed. It only hides it from the booted OS's Explorer which needs a drive letter to see any partition's files.

I recommend Puran Defrag Free Edition which offers a boot time defrag that gets at system files, which no defrag run from Windows can do. If you select Intelligent Optimizer on the Additional Operations tab it also moves most-used programs and files to the outer edge of HD for faster reads.

thanks for the advises!
does puran defrag speed up the ssd units?

To fully and completely isolate each OS from another OS, you would need have each OS on a different HD(SSD), and disconnect the OS HD(s) not being booted.
To me that's not practical for everyday use with a multi-boot PC.

What I do is create System Backup Images and keep them offline.
That way if one OS (or anything) causes problems for another OS partition, I can restore from the offline backup.
Offline backups are also a nice insurance policy for recovering for Malware...

yes i got it

and disconnect the OS HD(s) not being booted.
To me that's not practical for everyday use with a multi-boot PC.

but this is really not pratical , maybe the bios should better
thanks

You can try:
1.Open Control Panel
2.Change "View By: Large Icons"
3.Administrative tools
4.Computer Management
5.Under "Storage" click on "Disk Management"
6.Select the partition you want to change/hide
7. Right click it. In the context menu click "Change Drive Letter and paths..."
-------------------------
Hope this helps somehow.
I dont really see the point of hiding the partition from other OS, maybe just for Virus protection?
And if you hide that partition, I think the MBR might not find the OS partition and not boot it.
-----------------------
And if you just want to hide it from the Windows explorer:
1. Open up regedit.exe by using the start menu search box, and then browse down to the following key.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

2.The NoDrives key most likely does not exist by default, so you’ll need to create it with right-click \ new 32-bit DWORD and name it NoDrives.
3.Now Right click it, and select Modify
4.Select the Decimal(Radio button)
5.In the "Value data:" you need to write a number corresponding to the drive letter.
EXAMPLE:
Drive Letter Number
A 1
B 2
C 4
D 8
E 16
F 32
G 64
H 128
In order to see these changes, you’ll need to restart explorer.exe, which you can do easily from Task Manager or the longer way by just logging off and back on.
And so on
Hope this helps!

wow super thanks

 

[AddRAM]

You DO NOT defrag a solid state drive.

 

[Faladu]

I'd just use hard drive letters to X Y Z if needed, and never use them, never point anything towards them, should be fine.

I recall a utility I used previously, that allowed you to hide drive letters from explorer, also, was simply of matter of clicking check boxes next to letters, forget which one though.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Mate so easy get Partition Wizard Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.

open it right click on the partition you want nameless (I don't know if it will do it with the boot drive - but) click on Change letter - the box will tell you the current letter and None will be in the box just hit OK and the letter will be gone.

To give it a name again reverse the process only it will open with a default letter leave it at that if you like or you can pick what letter is available and then OK

PS you cannot do that with the boot drive letter

 

[drugo]

Mate so easy get Partition Wizard Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.

open it right click on the partition you want nameless (I don't know if it will do it with the boot drive - but) click on Change letter - the box will tell you the current letter and None will be in the box just hit OK and the letter will be gone.

To give it a name again reverse the process only it will open with a default letter leave it at that if you like or you can pick what letter is available and then OK

PS you cannot do that with the boot drive letter

cool program
can be used in portable mode? i mean without installation in an usb stick?
thanks

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Mate so easy get Partition Wizard Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.

open it right click on the partition you want nameless (I don't know if it will do it with the boot drive - but) click on Change letter - the box will tell you the current letter and None will be in the box just hit OK and the letter will be gone.

To give it a name again reverse the process only it will open with a default letter leave it at that if you like or you can pick what letter is available and then OK

PS you cannot do that with the boot drive letter

cool program
can be used in portable mode? i mean without installation in an usb stick?
thanks

Yes mate - Boot partition manager from USB Flash disk directly to manage disk partition - Partition Wizard Bootable Flash Drive.

 

[drugo]

Mate so easy get Partition Wizard Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.

open it right click on the partition you want nameless (I don't know if it will do it with the boot drive - but) click on Change letter - the box will tell you the current letter and None will be in the box just hit OK and the letter will be gone.

To give it a name again reverse the process only it will open with a default letter leave it at that if you like or you can pick what letter is available and then OK

PS you cannot do that with the boot drive letter

cool program
can be used in portable mode? i mean without installation in an usb stick?
thanks

Yes mate - Boot partition manager from USB Flash disk directly to manage disk partition - Partition Wizard Bootable Flash Drive.

thanks a lot
for years i used acroni disk director

 

[ICIT2LOL]

A pleasure drugo if you want a another litle gem - my bible -

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html?filter[2]=Performance Maintenance great stuff if you don't mind losing some of the "bling" like transparency