>Hide drives in Windows XP (Logical partitions)

>This is how you can hide one or more of your drives (logical partitions)
Windows XP provides (Not officialy) a utility by which u can hide one or more drives .

1. Go to Start > run > type diskpart
a dos window will appear with following discription.
DISKPART>

2. Then type list volume

You see something similar to this . .

Volume### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
————– —- —— — —– —- ——- —–

Volume 0 F DC-ROM
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 7000MB Healthy
Volume 2 D soft NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy
Volume 3 E Docs NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy

3.if u wanna hide drive E then type

select volume 3

then this message appears { Volume 3 is the selected volume**

4.now type

remove letter E

now a message appear { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter **

Sometimes it require a reboot.

Logic: Diskpart will remove the letter .Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unknown volume.

Note: Your data will remain safe .
To get back the Drive, repeat the process, but in 4th step above, replace

remove

by

assign

ie., type

assign letter E

Caution: Double check the steps before you try, or else it may give fatal results.

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>Stop "Check Disk" from running at boot time

>Stop “Check Disk” from running at boot time

1.Edit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession Manager

2.Change the BootExecute entry from:

autocheck autochk * /………

To:
autocheck autochk *

If you have scheduled CHKDSK for multiple volumes, there will be an autocheck entry for each volume.
Delete the string from the BootExecute registry value for each volume you do not want checked.

Note: If you have NT 4.0 & SP2. A new command line utility CHKNTFS, will assist in preventing repeated CHKDSKs during reboots if the “dirty” bit is set.

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