hiding the drive

[orionzbelt1]

I have just partitioned my hardrive with a 10g space and have put xp on there incase my raid every gets currupt, just for safety measure but being as all my other data is on the other partition i have to see the drive within xp.

Is there anyway i can hide the partition i have set aside for my fail safe xp boot

[redduc900]

Add the NoDrives DWORD value (this value defines local and network drive visibility for each logical drive on the computer. All drives will be visible as long as this value's data is set to 0) under the following Registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer

NoDrives - The DWORD Value is derived from the following...

The "NoDrives" value uses a 32-bit bitmask to define local and network drive access for each logical drive in the computer. The lower 26 bits of the 32-bit word correspond to drive letters A through Z. Following the table below, enter the decimal number corresponding to the drive(s) you want to hide as NoDrives value data. When you right-click on NoDrives and choose "Modify", make sure you select Decimal base, not Hexadecimal...

A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432, ALL: 67108863

For example to hide drive A and drive D, you would add 1 (A) + 8 (D) which means the Decimal value should be set to 9. To disable all the drives, set the value to 67108863.

[orionzbelt1]

Thanks mate ill give it go tomorrow shame ther isnt a easier way to do this like hiding a folder


Cheers