Re: Dual Boot Question

If your not doing this for security reasons, just go to disk management and
remove the drive letter of the partition you don't want access to. I don't
know if this will be possible from the OS not on the system (boot)
partition, it may not let you remove the system partition drive letter.

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"John Morgan" <John Morgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have set up a new hard drive in my laptop. I created 3 partitions so
that
I could have 2 boot partitions and one data partition.

The dual boot works just fine and I'm not having any trouble with that.

My question is one of security I suppose. I would like it so that when I
choose to boot to one of my boot partitions I can't see the other.

The way it currently works is that when I boot to the partition I use away
from work (no network client software, no work applications, etc.) I can
still see and browse the boot partition I use for work and vice-versa.

What I want is to only be able to see the boot partition I am currently
using and the data drive. I want the non actice boot partition to be
invisible.

So basically I want to have a situation where I boot to my "At Home" boot
partition and I don't want to even know that there is an "At Work"
partition.

Is it possible to set this up?

John Morgan


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