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Are all the experts still on holidays???
Would you like Partition Magic to fix this error ? - Choose NO. This may occur even if the Vista drive is hidden. Additionally the drives or partitions after the Vista partition may not be visible to to PM and show up(only in PM8/8.01) as bad. If so and you wish to managed them use XP or Vista's Disk Management

Thinkpad Hidden Partition & MBR
I would like the inactive OS to be hidden. How can I accomplish this? Open up the Disk Management snap-in (easiest is to right click My Computer, then pick Manage You can do the same thing in Win2K, this time hiding the XP partition. -- don (MVP) http://www.shaka.com/~mdon Please follow up to the group ... thanks!

HAL.dll
Why would this interfere in any way with my XP installation?? I had hidden that partition hadn'tI ?!! Step 3. Hide the (new) Win98 FAT32 partition and unhide the XP partition. Boot into XP Step 4. Manually (tricky??) edit the BOOT.INI file and just add a line describing the newly created Win98 partition (add

Win98 on HP ZE4500 notebook
Now you want to create a primary partition for XP. And you want the XP partition to be right after the WinME partition. 1. So open PartitionMagic 2. .... yet you come up with PView (which is a program found in NT,2000, & XP) If you are able to see ME while in XP, then that mean that the ME OS is not hidden from XP.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
So we tried to create a dual partition system. Win XP loads and runs fine in its own partition. I like to use Partition Magic, or something similar, to manage dual booting and hidden partitions in a situation like this. This will maintain the XP partition integrity for sure, but there may still be difficulties with

Deleting $NtUninstall, etc. -- Ill advised??
If I have Windows XP Home Edition on my boot partition and a second FAT32 partition exists, can I access the second partition (assuming that its not hidden) from Win XP? My situation is that I have a Windows 98 installation, and the Cendyne CD-RW that I just bought only supports Win 98SE or higher.

usb partition removal
There are only a few small system files; for Win9x/ME they are io.sys and msdos.sys, for Win2K/XP they are ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini, plus bootsect.dos for a dual-boot system. They all are hidden, system and read-only and they all must reside in C:\, the Root of the system partition.

Hidden Linux Partition...
And, hopefully that will free up enough space in my XP partition that everything will run nicely again. "S.Sengupta" wrote: Do some reading here:- http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Hotfix_backup.htm and My question is this: is there any repercussion to deleting the hidden $NtUninstall* files from the Windows XP folder?

Corrupting XP Partition
*Requirements: Create second partition with PM7 for Win98. Would like both OSs installed on C: XP partition as NTFS. Using partition hiding, is this setup the existence of the other, as each is installed to a primary partition, and when one operating system is set active, the other primary partition is hidden.

another me to xp question
Or, if I Ghost the XP partition, erase the drive, clone the partition back, will it boot? No, neither of those procedures will make any difference. First check to make sure ntdetect.com, ntldr and boot.ini are on the xp partition (I think they're normally hidden files). They probably are, but it doesn't hurt to

Can't Make XP Work With Partition Magic's Boot Magic
philo ph...@privacy.net 24hoursupport helpdesk I'd just leave it as MBR, format it as NTFS and then assign it a drive letter and you should be all set to go Thanks - the actual disk management tree is way less confusing than the bloody awful help system (once I found it that is!). yep.. it's well hidden but now you

Dual booting and partitioning
In time I will migrate to the new XP partition and delete the old one. This is what I did to create a new XP partition :- STEP ONE. Hide the original XP partition. (Removed MBR entry and change partiton file type to hidden.) STEP TWO. Installed a new copy of XP in the space just behind the first hidden partition.

Hiding Vista volumes from XP (volsnap.sys issue revisited)
This is due to the 1st partition is hidden and windows don't consider hidden partition to be system partition. In theory, you can edit the registry to reflect 2nd I have Win XP Pro installed on the primary partition. When I copy this Thanks for the reply: When I install XP, I have installed them into their own

Accessing the XP C:-partition from Win2000?
Today I reinstalled Windows XP and all the rest, and then at the end I wanted to re-install Partition Magic, but by error clicked on BootMagic and installed that. I have Windows XP on partition 1 which is NTFS (C:) and my backup files in partition 2 which is FAT32 (D:). Now BootMagic has hidden my D: partition and

Hidden Linux Partition...
UK alt os linux suse Peter James wrote: why do you need to keep the XP partition, just dump windoze XP and when you sell your computer sell it with Linux. I am sure there is a local lug you can find someone who you can sell it too alternativly can't this partition be backed up on to cd-r, i know its' hidden but

cloned XP partition to other disk won't boot
The Debian installer changed the partition number of my XP partition, I think by changing it from a primary partition to a logical partition. After a lot of Googling, I learned that the NT boot loader is a program named ntldr in my Win98 C:\ that is configured by a (hidden) text file (thank God) named boot.ini also

Should I UNinstall BootitNG before XP
I recommend getting the latest Partition Magic if you are unable to resize using the XP tools. I use PM to keep a hidden backup copy of the XP partition incase I load something I cannot get rid of. You might want to play around on the mandrake.com site io see what you can see. Specs: Pentium IV 2.4GHz 533MHz MSI

Dual boot with hidden OS's!
How can I recover this hidden space? Current OS is XP home edition,previous was Millenium. Thanks to the good souls answering this cry for help. Since this is a relatively new install of Office XP, a better suggestion would be for you do a complete reinstall and let XP partition and format your drive. Dave.

Ghosting Partitions
I asked specifically for XP Pro, it came with a Product Recovery disk i looked at this ,this morning. Altered the boot setup to cd/dvd, initially on I have a toshiba laptop , which states in the manual that there is a 1.5GB hidden Recovery partition i have failed to find it. somehow i get the feeling that its

Windows XP reinstall
That volume would need to be hidden from XP as well. I haven't gone into that detail in the GP because the user needs to work that one out based on his backup plan. As many authors have pointed out, we BOOT from the SYSTEM partition and keep the operating SYSTEM files in the BOOT volume.