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Hide a Logical drive? 1
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Are you trying to hide an extended logical dos partition? Is the drive (D
a zip drive? You have to CLARIFY your question, it is very difficult to understand what you mean!
a zip drive? You have to CLARIFY your question, it is very difficult to understand what you mean!- Thread starter
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I am trying to hide a logical drive (Don an extended MS-DOS partition, on a 10 GB HDD, my OS is Win98 SE. Drive D: ocupies the entire extended partition. I want to hide the drive (undrer win98), not the partition. I hope this makes things sufficiantly clear.
on an extended MS-DOS partition, on a 10 GB HDD, my OS is Win98 SE. Drive D: ocupies the entire extended partition. I want to hide the drive (undrer win98), not the partition. I hope this makes things sufficiantly clear.-
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TopHat2,
Backup the registry and/or export the following keys:
go to Start>Run, type regedit. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Right-click on the Explorer key, choose new>DWORD value, name it NoDrives. Right-click on that, choose modify, make sure decimal is chosen and type in the number 8.
reghakr
Backup the registry and/or export the following keys:
go to Start>Run, type regedit. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Right-click on the Explorer key, choose new>DWORD value, name it NoDrives. Right-click on that, choose modify, make sure decimal is chosen and type in the number 8.
reghakr
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