hide linux partitions from Windows XP

[Jeremy Thompson]

On 12/29/06, brian hirning <bhirning at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> im not at a windows box ATM but i think you can change drive and letters
> in one of the administrative tools section.
>
> On 12/29/06, Felipe Figueiredo < philsf at ufrj.br> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have almost always used dual boot here, but I am using LVM since only
> > a few
> > months. To my dismay, Windows does NOT auto-ignore these partitions,
> > giving
> > me useless D:, E: , drives.
> >
> > More than the inconvenient of having my CD-ROM drive letter pushed away
> > to the
> > middle of the alphabet, I am constantly startled by the possibility that
> >
> > Windows actually corrupts my main OS partitions'.
>
>
Like the poster above said you can switch the drive letters around.  However
at the following link you can also just hide the drives so you don't see
them.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555438

I did this on my other computer when I dual booted to windows a lot more.
You can also search google for 'windows partition hide' to find some more
user friendly directions.


So, does anybody know how to hide non-FAT partitions from Windows? I am
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> > regards
> > FF
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Good Luck!

JT
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