I like the way some companies like Emachines and HP make a hidden partition with system image. I was wondering if anybody knows what they use to do this and if this partition is safe from viruses.
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Jump to PostBasically, all they do is change the ID of the partition on disk. You can change it to say "Hidden FAT32", which effectively hides the partition. The only way to "see" the partition is to use an OS/program that doesn't recognize that the partition ID is "hiding" the partition-- Linux, …
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