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For a certain project, I need to hide an Active Local drive partition
Temporally, switching the Active partition from one partition to another
does not satisfy the goals of this project
I am looking for a DOS tool / application that will easily unmark an Active
Local hard drive to a state were none of the drive partitions are marked
Active
The only current solution I have at this time is Symantec Partition Magic
and that involves a work around. For this to work, I have to create a
temporary Primary partition, then (2) mark said temporary Primary partition
Active and then (3) delete said Primary partition - this will leave all prior
drives uneffected and no drives Active on the hard drive
One side effect of this work around - Partition Magic will alter a Windows
Multiboot "boot.ini" file after any partition is deleted
Thank you in advance for your replies
For a certain project, I need to hide an Active Local drive partition
Temporally, switching the Active partition from one partition to another
does not satisfy the goals of this project
I am looking for a DOS tool / application that will easily unmark an Active
Local hard drive to a state were none of the drive partitions are marked
Active
The only current solution I have at this time is Symantec Partition Magic
and that involves a work around. For this to work, I have to create a
temporary Primary partition, then (2) mark said temporary Primary partition
Active and then (3) delete said Primary partition - this will leave all prior
drives uneffected and no drives Active on the hard drive
One side effect of this work around - Partition Magic will alter a Windows
Multiboot "boot.ini" file after any partition is deleted
Thank you in advance for your replies