Re: [Bug-grub] Hide doesn't hide from Win2k?

[Jason Thomas]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 07:05:36AM -0500, Bob Berman wrote:
> I have three SCSI disks and 1 IDE disk in one of myu systems. I am using
> Grub 0.90 to boot up into one of 4 OS's I have installed. My BIOS is
> set to boot SCSI first then IDE. Everything works fine. The only problem
> I am having is that I reformatted one of my SCSI disks to be entirely
> Linux (fdisk type 83) and I am now having problems with it in Win 2K.
> 
> The problem is that if I boot into Linux, fdisk this one disk to be
> all one partition - sdc1 - type 83, and then logout and boot into
> Win 2K with this partition specified as hidden in Grub, Win2K
> nevertheless sees the partition and worse than that - it changes
> the partition type to "93" ! In Windows Explorer it turns up as
> "Local disk".

a hidden partition is still there the type '83' is changed to a hidden
type  '93' or in the case of fat32 'b' is changed to '1b' so the type is
not recognised by the operating system as valid.