How do I tackle a Hidden Partition????????

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Harsh - 14 Apr 2004 19:19 GMT

I have a Windows 98 SE system. A serious problem with my
one of my Hard Disc partitions caused the partition to
be "Hidden".(I donno how that happened ).Partition Magic
has a feature to Undo this and make it "Visible" again but
unfortunately it won't work cos it was installed on the
drive that is Hidden.

Is there a feature in Windows 98 SE which can help me undo
the cahnge?

Thanx.

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ChrisJ9876 - 14 Apr 2004 22:23 GMT

>From: "Harsh" anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com
>Date: 04/14/2004 2:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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>Thanx.

Did you create a rescue disk when you installed Partition Magic? If so, you can
use that. If not, take that Partition Magic CD to another PC and create a
rescue disk.

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I'm Dan - 14 Apr 2004 22:56 GMT

> I have a Windows 98 SE system. A serious problem with
> my one of my Hard Disc partitions caused the partition to
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> Is there a feature in Windows 98 SE which can help me undo
> the cahnge?

If you know your way around the partition table, the easiest way is to run
ptedit32.exe (find it on your PM CD). Ptedit allows you to directly edit
the partition-type byte in the partition table and change the partition from
"hidden-FAT32" to ordinary "FAT32".

If ptedit makes you uneasy, run pqmagic from your PM rescue floppies. If
you didn't make rescue floppies, find the following files on the PM CD
(probably in the \english\dosmake\disk2 folder) and copy to a floppy:
pqmagic.exe
pqmagic.ovl
pqmagic.pqg
pqpb.rtc
pmhelp.dat
mouse.com

Then boot from an ordinary Win98 boot floppy (aka, "Startup Disk"), switch
to your PM floppy and run pqmagic.exe.

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philo - 15 Apr 2004 08:35 GMT

> I have a Windows 98 SE system. A serious problem with my
> one of my Hard Disc partitions caused the partition to
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> Thanx.

you should be able to just boot with your win98 floppy
then run fdisk and set the hidden partition as active

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