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How to hide service partition, W500, Windows Vista?
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:57 pm
by gpvillamil
On my W500 there is a service partition (S:), that really doesn't need to be touched. I'm OK to have it there, just wondering if there is some non-destructive way of hiding it.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:08 am
by Wendy
I don't believe there is any way you can hide it. If you've created restore disks this is what is used to help restore you machine back to factory specs.
You can get yourself a set of back up disks from Lenovo and then get rid of it if you want the space.
I bought a smaller hard drive with my config and then bought a 250 western digital scorpio and put my own operating system on it. I keep my original drive intact and using the multibay drive adapter was able to find all the drivers and software I needed on the original drive and none of the fluff that they include.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:12 am
by gpvillamil
This trick worked:
http://tomstricks.blogspot.com/2008/08/ ... -hard.html
It prevents a drive from showing up in Explorer or in the File dialog, but the drive is still accessible to applications, and by manually entering its path.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:18 am
by Wendy
Nice site to file away for future info.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:55 am
by Marin85
Just for the record: one can also hide a partition using Acronis Disk Director, but I´m not sure if there is any freeware version of this tools suite.
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:25 pm
by basketb
Quick question for the OP. Was the service partition not hidden out of the box or did you do something to make it visible? (I've never seen this on any of the Thinkpads I received)
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:38 pm
by gpvillamil
basketb wrote:Quick question for the OP. Was the service partition not hidden out of the box or did you do something to make it visible? (I've never seen this on any of the Thinkpads I received)
It was always visible from day one, out of the box. There was also another partition, drive Q:, containing an image of recovery media, but that one had a program to remove itself once the recovery media had been burned to disk.