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| Re: unhiding a volume |
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Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:30:03 -050 |
Jan van Wijk wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:21:28 UTC, "Alex Taylor"
<mail.me@reply.to.address> wrote:
> Hi Leo, Alex,
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>>>>Just assign a drive letter to the hidden partition.
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>>>Did that and now I see HPFS-H. Does that mean it still hidden?
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> Sort of.
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> There are TWO basic methods for hiding these days:
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> 1) Change the partition type, like 0x07 => 0x17
> This is the old DOS/non-LVM style, as done by PartitionMagic
> and the DFSee 'setaccess PID hidden' command
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> LVM aware systems will still 'see' these
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> 2) Remove the drive-letter from the LVM-information, either using
> the LVM.EXE "hide" menu item, or the DFSee LVM edit dialog.
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> Since other OS's and older OS2 will ignore all LVM information
> anyway, this 'hiding' is only effective for LVM aware systems.
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>>No, it means it's marked as non-active by Boot Manager.
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> I don't think that is correct, AFAICT, the HPFS-H is
> displayed by LVM.EXE for a type 0x17 ...
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> (any "-H" would be a 0x1X 'hidden' type I guess)
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> To change this typoe back to normal 'visible' HPFS you can
> use the DFSee command 'setaccess PID visible' or menu-item:
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> Mode=FDISK ->
> Set partition ->
> Visible
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> That will change the type from 0x17 to 0x07 ...
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> Regards, JvW
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This is very exciting. As I understand this if you mark a partition as
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| Re: unhiding a volume |
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Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:51:02 -050 |
Jan van Wijk wrote:
> Hi Leo,
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> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:30:03 UTC, Leo Tick <tick@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
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>>This is very exciting. As I understand this if you mark a partition as
>>hidden thats a route od no return except through another piece of
software.
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> No, what gave you that idea ?
> Hiding it in LVM will only take away the drive-letter.
> (I am sure, I just tested it :-)
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> Alex was simply confusing the ACTIVE and the VISIBLE properties.
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> Anyway, even if the type would be HPFS-H, LVM does not care,
> it is visible in any case ...
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> Regards, JvW
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I have to take issue even if I understand little though I do
understand active and visible. The partition with HPFS-H did
have 1 17 as the type. Whan changed to 7 the -H wnt away
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| Re: unhiding a volume |
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Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:34:33 -080 |
Assign a drive letter.
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:47:12 -0500, Leo Tick wrote:
> It's easy in LVM to hide a volume
> but how can one UN-hide it?
> Thanks
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| unhiding a volume |
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Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:47:12 -050 |
It's easy in LVM to hide a volume
but how can one UN-hide it?
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| Re: unhiding a volume |
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Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:39:41 GMT |
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 19:47:12 UTC, Leo Tick <tick@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> It's easy in LVM to hide a volume
> but how can one UN-hide it?
> Thanks
Just assign a drive letter to the hidden partition.
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