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Any way to aviod messing up disk letters by hiding/not mounting them ?
Hello
This is a PC for someone else and I'm trying to disable the old windows install on a separate drive by making it inactive, however keeping it so it can be activated in case SSD fails or something happens to the new install later, this is a business office PC it has quite important data on it and this is for failsafe, the whole PC is built for secondary options, it also has an integrated GFX incase the PCI-E GPU fails.
I have a weird situation with diskpart, which I ran from win7 disk but show same thing with new win7 on an SSD, and it doesn't show letters properly.
SSD = System Reserved + C: (new win7)
HDD = System Reserved + C: (old win7) + (Shrinked C: >) Logical E: + D:
And I want to keep D: as D: in the new Win7 so it's also D: when going into old Win7.
And the E: was made after all the maintenance, backup of the old C: which was also defragmented and shrinked, for me it created an extended/logical partition, 3 max primary I guess, I hoped it wouldn't do this, but I didn't had experience anyway and didn't expect this would turn into a mess in diskpart.
I hoped I could keep old C: as C: and the Sys Reserved as no letter, so I don't need to mess with the assigmenets later if it has to be
Right now I have not booted any OS with the other drive, none of the OS know about each other's drives right now, so registry should be clean, but eventually i need those 2 D: and E: partitions to be used by the new win7. Also the old win7 needs D: partition for all the stuff to work.
I would be okay if windows would automount the whole disk, and unmount the two partitions that were from the old OS so it wouldn't be seen in My Computer when people log in. It would be fine if it was just a simple letter assignment, but because of this wacky mess I have no idea if I would ever be able to set it back once I change it.
I tried hiding the partition but it says for MBR all other volumes are also hidden so it hides the whole disk which is completely useless feature, i actually didn't try in practise, just applied it and went into details and all volumes had Hidden flag enabled.