How to Unhide a Partition?
How to Unhide a Partition?
What is Partition Genius?
Partition Genius tool can help you quickly and easily create partitions on your hard disk for storing valuable information such as data files, applications, and operating systems. Storing information in separate partitions helps you organize and protect your data, safely run multiple operating systems, and reclaim wasted disk space.
Partition Genius enables you to secure your data by physically separating it from other files. Separate partitions also make backups to networks and removable drives easy.
When should you use Partition Genius?
After you hide one or more partitions to secure your data, you need to unhide it or them before you can access to those files or documents. Partition Genius provides you the function of hiding. Meanwhile it allows you to unhide any partitions that you have hidden as well. Making a partition visible allows the booted OS to detect the partition.
Procedure of dealing with Partition Genius:
- To begin, please double click Spotmau icon and enter PowerSuite 2009’s interface, follow these steps: Self Service —>PowerSuite 2009 Wincare—> Partition Genius, then you can have the interface looked just like the followed picture.
The general condition of hard disk(s) (including capacity, free space, and so forth) will be shown on the interface in a list and a block area as above.
2. You can select a designated volume by clicking it either in the list or in the block area.
3. The functions button on the top of interface is also listed in the pop-up menu when you right click the designated volume in the block area.
4. UNHIDING: Unhiding is the reverse operation of Hiding. Right click the designated partition in the block area and choose the item of “Unhide”.
Before unhiding:
5. You are supposed to restart your computer in order to complete this operation.
6. Only after restarting the computer will you see the (G : ) appear again in “My Computer”. But you can choose to propone the restart process. Next time you switch on your computer you will see the same outcome.
And this is what you see about G: on the interface of PowerSuite 2009.
7. The following picture is shown and resizing finishes.
NOTES:
If you want to learn more about partition, you can turn to User Manual where you can find detail and useful information related to partition, such as the type of partition, file system, and so on.