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Thinkpad hidden partition: possible to remove and regain HD ...
I no longer use BM, but I think I've installed it in as little as 32MB before (I also stored DOS versions of DriveImage and PartitionMagic in the FAT partition). Hopefully, each of your XP installations should boot with itself as C: and the alternate XP partition hidden, don't they? Similarly, the FAT partition

Dual boot problem?
The NTFS XP Partition covers apprx. the first 8,8 GB of the disk. Will there be a problem with the BIOS 1024 Cylinder Limit or the 2GB Boot Code Boundary if I try to install the FreeBSD bootloader, leave XP where it is and splitt the XP partition in two 25GB partitions installing FBSD in the second part (starting

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
The thing I'm worried about is that the basic problem is I installed XP while the C: Win98SE partition was not hidden, resulting is no available drive letters until H. If C: is now set to hidden when XP loads, C: will be assigned for the XP partition. Ive read that XP isn't able to cope with it's drive letter being

Want to Install W2K XP into a Separate Partition
However, my WinME partition isn't really hidden from XP at all, even though it is marked to be. XP knows all and sees all - just like W2K did. You can defrag that ME drive from XP, for instance. However, I don't want my drive letters changing, and it does keep two drive C's if you use Boot Magic and "hide" the OS

Newbie install / partition problems
As I understand it Bootmagick hides my W98 disc from XP when XP boots, but this does seem to mean I can't access any files on my W98 disc from XP. Any way round this? A utility that will allow me to access the hidden partition - I only need to read -. Thanks John ps can you email me if you post a reply?

XP Partition: How to change location?
I reccomend putting partition magic with win98 later also. So, assuming you have XP booting on the first primary partition as C:, You'll have a second, hidden primary fat32 partitoin that will be win98, also C: and a logical drive D:. Run partition magic and *hide the xp partition*, *Unhide the second* / win98

install 98SE on XP machine
If BM is setting the active partitions as a result of your selection, presumably you only get the second menu choices when you boot to your XP partition. As the win98 partition is then hidden by BM, there must be another OS (perhaps just DOS) on your XP partition. You need to work out exactly what is happening here

Desparate for help
A new partition with the old one hidden is the same thing as a scratch install. Except your old OS is still around, still usable, and all your old apps are Then I'll install XP into the C: partition. If I later need more space on that partition I can delete the F: partition and add that space to C: (I think,

A novice calling...Help.."Power Profile not loading..!!!"
However, once W98 is installed the boot manager can be reconfigured to make the XP partition visible to Windows (if it's FAT32) - assuming, of course, that the boot manager supports that functionality. In any case, the W98 partition will always be visible to XP unless deliberately hidden using the boot manager

LILO and Windows XP
Hi, I have Windows ME, the installation files for this are not on CD, but on a 'hidden' partition. This is how ME was delivered to me, with my new PC. 1. Will I be able to do an upgrade from ME to XP, by performing a clean install? Formatting C: will not affect the hidden partition, which acts as a substitute for

Thinkpad hidden partition: possible to remove and regain HD ...
The complaint is something to do with a corrupted/unmountable partition. Using the WindowsXP disc to start the recovery console, then running 'chkdsk /p' has Jim -- www.skaar.101main.net from 20:00 to 7:30 AST, ask for free access to the hidden directories, may be full time soon www.geocities.com/skaar0 for the

Problem with screen resolution
It appears I only need to uncheck their read-only and hidden attributes. I am confident I'll never want to revert to the state of my XP installation years ago. Best wishes, Richard You're welcome, when you are ready to expand the partition you may care to browse through the Paragon range of software - they have

recovery console unimpressive
I think the way the laptop works is that it just boots the first hidden partition if F9 is pressed otherwise it finds the active partition and boots that. I assume that the recovery partition just contains a clone image, rather than a copy of an installation DVD. Bootitng allows me to clone the XP partition,

Removing $NtUninstall* files from Windows folder
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 not Since it is only three months old, did it come with XP or Vista? What kind of recovery disk did it come with? Or did you have to burn your own?

Dual Boot Windows XP x64 and Vista 32-bit Problem
As I sum up all partitions, my 20 gig disk shows little over 19 gig, which I can only repute to the hidden partition being there and not accessible. Laptop Computer <nos...@nospam.com> wrote: I used PartitionMagic ver 8 to shrink and move the default XP partition prior to booting up XP for the first time (plan on

For Kent W. about XP on 2nd partition
I always do this with the Me partition active even if booting from DOS so I save and restore my XP and 98SE partitions whilst they are hidden. If you want to install clean then I would suggest simply setting the XP partition as active using the PM boot floppy with other partitions hidden, formatting and then

Partition Magic
Jeff Richards JRich...@msn.com.au microsoft public win95 setup If your boot procedure is loading Windows correctly then the fact that the boot device is the slave drive or that there is a hidden XP partition is not relevant. Do not use safe mode. First step is to confirm that you have installed the latest available

XP, to upgrade or start from scratch?
Is there an option to use FAT32 with XP so that I can keep the XP partition visible to OS/2? Is 4 gig enough for XP plus Office and a few apps? IBM sent me the XP recovery CD's for the laptop It can stay on the boot menu even with the letter removed so that OS/2 considers it 'hidden', if that is what you mean.

Backing up the hidden partition
Mike M...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general My main reason for still having an XP partition was so that I could run That, and all this hassle to get XP to boot is not worth the frustration. "Mike" wrote: As far as I can tell, yes, it was set to show hidden and protected files.

Thinkpad hidden partition: possible to remove and regain HD ...
Alan mosko...@yahoo.com alt os windows-xp Where can i get information on making cdr of hidden partition that contains my operating system. I cannot get a recovery disk from the computer manufacturer. I have xp home --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).