How to hide a partition and its advantages and disadvantages

I have ever done some tests on the hidden partition in Windows 7. And the test reveals that the hidden partition format is NTFS without volume label and letter. Its disk statuses are system, active, primary partition. It can not be seen because it has no letter. But this hidden partition of 100MB (200MB in Bata Edition) is very important to Windows 7 as it stores information of system boot files and disk boot sectors. If it is lost, the consequence will be disastrous for Windows 7. Therefore, storing the boot file of Windows 7 in the hidden partition improves Windows 7 security beyond any doubt and prevents artificial damage or damage caused by virus, for the hidden can only be modified or deleted in DOS interface. So many users are concerned about how to hide partition with important files or privacy.

To hide partition, we only need some partition magic. MiniTool Partition Wizard, released by the professional software development company MiniTool Solution Ltd., is some professional disk management software. It can hide partition to improve partition security. And the hidden partition is not displayed in the explorer. When need files in hidden, we can explore it with MiniTool Partition Wizard. Although the operation is a little complicated, it is necessary for users who want to hide partition to avoid data leak. We can apply MiniTool Partition Wizard to create a new partition to store the important data and then hide the new partition though the “Hide Partition” function. This operation is not only in favor of anti-virus, but also can guarantee data security.

However, hidden partition also has some disadvantages. Some brand computers use hidden partition to store hardware drivers and these drivers always occupy a lot of space. If disk space is not enough, we can back up them in the optical disk and delete them to release hidden partition space. However, many manufactures also store some operating system back up in the hidden partition. When recover system, we need to download much installation software and update software, so the system backup is useless and wasteful. So we can delete the hidden partition and merge it into Partition C: before deleting the hidden partition in Windows 7, we have to set C: as active partition and copy all data of the hidden partition to Partition C: otherwise, we can not boot operating system after the deletion.

We can hide partition according to our demands. If we attach importance to security, we can put all important in one partition and hide. If we pay much attention to disk space, we can delete the unessential hidden partition to release space.