Activating Or Deactivating A Partition; Hiding Or Unhiding A Partition - Symantec GHOST IMAGING FOUNDATION 7.1 - V1.0 Manual

Activating or deactivating a partition

Hiding or unhiding a partition

Viewing disk wipe output
Figure 5-1
A computer starts in an active partition. Using the /act or /-act switches, you can
choose the partition to which the computer starts.
Depending on the version of GDisk that you require, the syntax for this command
is one of the following:
GDisk.exe gdisk disk /[-]act /p:partn-no
GDisk32.exe gdisk32 disk /[-]act /p:partn-no
Table 5-9 lists the act switches.
/act switches
Table 5-9
Switch Explanation
disk Represents the physical fixed disk, from 1 to 128.
/act Activates a partition.
/-act Deactivates a partition.
/p:partn-no Indicates the partition to activate or deactivate. Only primary
partitions can be activated. Use the number reported by GDisk in
standard display mode (not using /lba or /raw) for partn-no.
You can hide a partition so that a user cannot see it.
Depending on the version of GDisk that you require, the syntax for this command
is one of the following:
GDisk.exe gdisk disk /[-]hide /p:partn-no
Managing partitions using GDisk
Activating or deactivating a partition
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