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 From: Pete Sass
  Where is Pete Sass?
 Marathon, Ontario
 Canada
 Pete Sass
 To: Glen Villar
  Where is Glen Villar?
 Palayan City
 Philippines
 Glen Villar
Subject: RE: Lock Partition
Thread ID: 170998 Message ID: 171156 # Views: 2 # Ratings: 0
Version: Not Applicable Category: Operating Systems
Date: Saturday, May 3, 2008 12:30:31 AM         
   



> >
> >
> > Morning from Canada,
> > Maybe this is an option for you..... that is hide the volume so it cannot be
> > seen at all and this is no cost and is right in the operating system.
> > Here’s how:
> >
> > 1. First open Command Prompt (Start>Run>Type “cmd” without the quotes)
> >
> > 2. On the flushing cursor type “diskpart” (again without the quotes) Note: Wait for the Diskpart> and the flushing cursor to appear, usually it takes 5 seconds.
> >
> > 3. After the Diskpart> appears, type “list volume” (no quotes ok). It will then show all the drive in your computer including optical drives.
> >
> > 4. Select the drive you like to hide, for example using my system configuration, I want to hide drive d: then I’ll just type “select volume 3” (excluding the quotes). This varies depending on your system configuration.
> >
> > 5. After that, type “remove letter D” (again without the quotes). Then exit command prompt.
> >
> > Your drive now is hidden, don’t worry its not been deleted of formatted, we just hide it. So if you want to see your drive again just follow the following.
> >
> > To unhide the partition, repeat the steps 1-4 and on step 5 type “assign drive D” (ok again without the quote).
> >
> > That’s all; your drive now is not hidden.
> >
> >
> > Now if you wanted to have some fun wrap this with VFP code and behind some
> > password protection and you have this automated and password protected.
> >
> > Pete from the Great White North. (Only in Canada, ay.) Over and Out ...
>
>
>
> Excellent!
>
>
> A cup of coffee, keeps my problems at bay. (coffee)


From the Great White North of Canada,
There are a wopping bunch of undocumented commands that simply do not come up at all or not frequently.
The trick is to know your OS well but where Microsoft is concerned a lot is not really documented well.
I was very surprised to get soo many ratings from this thread that I thought was common knowledge.
Pete from the Great White North. (Only in Canada, ay.) Over and Out ...

ENTIRE THREAD

Lock Partition Posted by Binod Binani @ 5/2/2008 11:13:16 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Cetin Basoz @ 5/2/2008 11:31:26 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Binod Binani @ 5/2/2008 12:26:24 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Pete Sass @ 5/2/2008 1:06:10 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Mustapha Bihmouten @ 5/2/2008 1:47:57 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Binod Binani @ 5/2/2008 1:52:12 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Jun Tangunan @ 5/2/2008 2:48:59 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Pete Sass @ 5/2/2008 7:03:57 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Glenn Villar @ 5/2/2008 11:51:10 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Pete Sass @ 5/3/2008 12:30:31 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Jun Tangunan @ 5/3/2008 3:41:49 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Pete Sass @ 5/4/2008 12:51:36 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Jun Tangunan @ 5/4/2008 1:13:18 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Patrick McGreevy @ 5/5/2008 8:53:36 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Glenn Villar @ 5/4/2008 7:31:53 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Christian Tabligan @ 5/5/2008 8:58:22 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Patrick McGreevy @ 5/6/2008 3:20:30 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Christian Tabligan @ 5/6/2008 3:48:47 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Patrick McGreevy @ 5/6/2008 3:09:07 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Binod Binani @ 5/3/2008 8:00:16 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Pete Sass @ 5/4/2008 12:49:30 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Binod Binani @ 5/4/2008 6:46:57 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Glenn Villar @ 5/4/2008 7:30:21 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Christian Tabligan @ 5/5/2008 9:02:39 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Jun Tangunan @ 5/5/2008 3:01:15 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Glenn Villar @ 5/5/2008 3:26:09 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Christian Tabligan @ 5/6/2008 2:46:07 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Glenn Villar @ 5/6/2008 1:19:59 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Glenn Villar @ 5/5/2008 3:26:12 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Bernard Bout @ 5/3/2008 9:39:51 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Jun Tangunan @ 5/3/2008 9:50:11 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Bernard Bout @ 5/5/2008 5:28:15 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Jun Tangunan @ 5/5/2008 11:08:05 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Bernard Bout @ 5/6/2008 6:22:31 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Binod Binani @ 5/3/2008 11:20:46 AM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Bernard Bout @ 5/5/2008 5:32:17 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Binod Binani @ 5/6/2008 4:11:43 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Binod Binani @ 5/6/2008 4:13:06 PM
RE: Lock Partition Posted by Binod Binani @ 5/6/2008 4:13:42 PM