Acronis Disk Director 11: Hiding and Unhiding Volumes

You can hide volumes from the operating system. You can also unhide them

This article applies to:

Acronis Disk Director 11 Home
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced

Introduction

You can hide a volume from the operating system. After hiding, the operating system will not be able to detect the volume.

The hidden volume loses its letter and this letter becomes free for assignment.

(!) You can only hide and unhide volumes on basic MBR disks.

Hiding dynamic disks is not supported:

(!) Hiding a volume that contains a swap file will prevent your machine from booting. Hiding a system volume or a boot volume with a currently running operating system is disabled to retain the machine's bootability.

Solution

Hiding a volume:

Select the volume you want to hide and click Hide:
Click OK:
Commit the operation:

Unhiding a volume:

Select the hidden volume and click Unhide:
Click OK:
Assign a drive letter to it, preferably the same drive letter it had used. Select the volume and click Change letter:
Click OK:
Commit the two operations:

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