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Is it possible to hide partitions from windows installation?

In the old days, the 1990s, there was partition magic that had an option to hide partitions.

GParted has an option to hide a partition, but Windows 7 installation still sees it.

Easeus and Partition Wizard don't seem to have an option I can see to hide a partition

I'm using Windows 7 but I think this should apply for later versions of Windows too.

These are my partitions.. Disk Management shows both disk0 and disk1 as having partition format of MBR.

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barlop
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  • "In the old days…" – Does it count as retrocomputing? Even if not, see [this](https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/16685). – Kamil Maciorowski Apr 09 '22 at 19:34
  • @KamilMaciorowski thanks.. looks like maybe current tools have decided there's no point then (and gparted isn't doing it right, especially not on MBR) – barlop Apr 09 '22 at 19:41

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Current partition editors "hide" partitions by deleting their drive-letter, which I suppose isn't enough for you.

The only solution I can think of is to encrypt the disk/partition with VeraCrypt using whole-partition encryption.

You might also use the stronger feature of Hidden Volume where a VeraCrypt volume is hidden within another VeraCrypt volume.

For more information see Full Disk Encryption with VeraCrypt (and the included warnings).

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  • you might be over generalising a bit about current partition editors.. GParted apparently does something (not deleting drive letter) https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/16685 (though very ineffective at least for MBR). And the other programs I mentioned don't have a hide option at all. The Veracrypt idea sounds like it should work! – barlop Apr 09 '22 at 20:17
  • veracrypt seems to be a bit tricky for me to use, says "veracrypt system encryption pretest failed" so I can't test this. – barlop Apr 10 '22 at 02:13