Acronis disk director suite 9.0 User Manual

Manual Partition Operations 

 

 

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other software, Acronis Disk Director Suite can hide any partition independent of 
its type, primary or logical. 

1. 

Select a disk and a partition to hide in the list in the Acronis Disk Director 
Suite main window. 

2. 

Execute operation of partition hiding by selecting Disk   Advanced   Hide 
or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or by clicking 

 Hide the 

selected partition on the toolbar (or selecting it from partition or the 
graphical representation context menu). 

3. By 

clicking 

OK

 in the Hide Partition window, you'll add a pending operation to 

partition hiding (your actions may only undo or modify an existing operation as 
well. See 2.4.5 «Modifying pending operations»). 

 

A hidden partition is labeled Hid in the Flags field of 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   Hide

sidebar item is changed to Advanced   Unhide after 

you select a hidden partition from the list. The partition context menu also changes.  

 

Hiding a partition in Windows 95/98/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 3.1

«Creating A New Partition». 

Unhiding a partition is performed so an operating system can "see" the partition, 
assign it a letter and provide access to partition files.