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Hiding partitions in DD11

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Why have they made it more complicated to hide partitions in DD11?

In DD10, you go to advanced and "hide" or "unhide" partitions. In DD11 you have to change to partition type to "type 17h hiddne NTFS" (to hide) or "type 07h Windows NTFS" to unhide. This is just making things more complicated.

So let's see:
- we can't put OSS on the boot CD anymore
- we can't set up OSS fron the desktop anymore (only from booting into the OSS screen)

- to reactivate OSS after deactivating we have to:
-boot into a partition that has DD11 installed
or load DD11 from the boot CD and
-change the partition types rather than "hide" and "unhide"
- then boot into a partition with DD11 installed

This is a step forward? I don't think so.
And it costs money.

I can't see any way I'm better off than if I stayed with DD10 - and in most ways I'm actually worse off. What are the Acronis people thinking?

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Hi John,

I agree with most of what you say but you can use OSS from the desktop. You may not have the shortcut. I attach one for you to try.

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Did you install OSS using UAC from a limited user or did you install logged in as administrator?

If you did the limited user one you may need to log in as administrator and do a repair - that was something I needed to do.

Hi Ray,

Mine is already ticked "run as administrator" (Win 7 x64), but my user (the only user on the PC) is a full administrator anyway.

The icon to configure OSS *did* work once - the very first time I installed it, but after that it never worked again. I spent a whole day uninstalling and re-installing as part of my "upgrade" from DD10 to DD11.

I'm not so worried about this as much as being able to run OSS from the boot CD - that should be critical for anyone. This problem is just an(other) indication of how DD11 was rushed out *way* before it was ready. I would uninstall it immediately, except I fear I'll waste another day getting OSS set up right.

In fairness, OSS does set up nice and easy with Windows 7 now - but all the other factors pile up to negate this gain. I really *want* to like this product, and I really want to use OSS (I don't want to learn a new product and go through all the hassle of setting up again) - but this is ridiculous.