Older versions of the tool mentioned above have an option built into the windows boot loader.remember that with a standard win7 (or above) installation, there is a hidden boot partition, which is separate from the 'C' drive partition.īoot records and MBR (Master Boot Records) are an advanced topic. On #3, this all depends on the boot loader or BIOS to implement. NOTE: be careful of it is a GPT or normal partition scheme. Afterall, it is just a partition in the partition table, etc. The tool above will 'hide' it, but it will still show up (as will the partions from PC vendors like HP/Dell) if you look hard enough. On #2, you can't really hide it 'forever'. NOTE: Win8 has tools that do similar things, but in a different way to allow you to 'restore' things.

There are a lot of posts about the tool, but the basics are to do the partitioning at the start, do the installation, allow you to customize things, then create the snapshot. On creating a recovery like partition, there is a prety good tool - that can help you do this as a part of building the OS installation. I dont know anything about them in detail! Any proper suggestions or help would be courteously appreciated!Īnd also do let me know how to use tools like MBR and playing with the boot records and all that stuff. Is there anyway to create such function for that Recovery Partition or is it simply programmed into BIOS at the time of Manufacturing at factory? Kindly in details I would like to know. Like it shouldn't show up even if you Re-partition your harddisk like OEM pcs have it hidden!ģrd Question: I also want to know how to stick that HOTKEY functionality forever like OEMs have even if you format or re-partition your hard disk drive. Long time subscriber to this forum first time participator in it! I want to know how to create a Recovery Partition with a System Image aka Windows Image with drivers and other settings installed.Ģnd Question: I also want to know how to hide that Recovery Partition properly and forever.

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