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Manual Partition Operations
1.
Select a disk and a partition to hide in the list in the Acronis Disk Director Server
main window.
2.
Execute operation of partition hiding by selecting
Disk
Æ
Advanced
Æ
Hide
or a
similar item in the
Advanced
sidebar list, or by clicking
Hide the selected
partition
on the toolbar (or select it from partition or the graphical representation
context menu).
3. By
clicking
OK
in the
Hide Partition
window, you'll add a pending operation of partition
hiding (your actions may only undo or modify an existing operation. See
3.4.5
«Modifying pending operations»).
Hide Partition window
A hidden partition is labeled
Hid
in the
Flags
field of the partition list in the main window.
Attention! Hiding a system partition will prevent your PC from booting. Hiding a swap file
partition in Windows NT/2000/XP will produce a similar result. If you have several primary
partitions with different operating systems, hiding an active system partition will
automatically make another partition active.
Note that the
Advanced
Æ
Hide
sidebar item is changed to
Advanced
Æ
Unhide
after you
select a hidden partition from the list. The partition context menu also changes.
Hiding a partition in Windows 98/Me can change the order of letters assigned to other
partitions. As a result, some shortcuts might stop working. In Windows NT/2000/XP, hiding
a partition does not affect letters assigned to other partitions. As a result, only hidden
partition shortcuts will stop working. A detailed discussion of partition letter assignment
rules for various operating systems appears in
4.1 «Creating A New Partition».
5.2.4
Unhiding a partition
Unhiding a partition is performed so an operating system can "see" the partition, assign it
a letter and provide access to its files.
If you need to unhide a partition:
1.
Select a disk and partition to unhide from the list in the Acronis Disk Director Server
main window.
2. Select
Disk
Æ
Advanced
Æ
Unhide
or a similar item in the
Advanced
sidebar list, or
click
Unhide the selected partition
on the toolbar (or select it from partition or
the graphical representation context menu).