Spiritfish
New Member
Hello!
I have spent about two days trying to solve this problem. Time to ask the forum for some help!
My setup is this:
I have one harddrive, 92GB.
I have made 3 partitions.
Partition 0, 40 GB, Vista Home - Game Edition. Include the Master Boot Record.
Partition 1, 25 GB, Vista Home - Work Edition.
Partition 2, 26,5 GB. Media.
Everything works great in dualbooting the systems. No problem. And this is the setup from EasyBCD.
My question is this: Can I use NeoGRUB and the hide command to hide Vista Work partition when I run Vista Game. And can I use the hide command to hide Vista Game partition when i run Vista Work?
I think running Game(hd0,0) and hide Work(hd0,1) is no problem. But running Work(hd0,1) and hide Game(hd0,0) will fail beacuse Game include the Master Boot Record. Is there any way around this? I only have one drive and can only use one drive(Laptop).
The reason I want to do this is becuse of security.
If anyone have any good suggestion how to solve this I would be very happy!
Addendum:
Or would this work?
1. I make a configuration in Neogrub that hides (hd0,0). Reboot and run it.
2. Restart the computer. It will fail to start beacuse I dont have any drive with MBR. Beacuse (hd0,0) is hidden.
3. Insert Windows Vista CD and re-install on (hd0,1). That way (hd0,1) will include a MBR.
4. Run EasyBCD in Vista(hd0,1). Make a configuration in NeoGRUB that unhide (hd0,0).
5. That way both (hd0,0) and (hd0,1) will have a MBR. And when I hide one of them I can boot from the other one with the other one hidden.
Would that work? Or is there an easier way to do it without reinstalling Vista? Or is this even possible?
If this would work, would this neogrub config file work?
I have spent about two days trying to solve this problem. Time to ask the forum for some help!
My setup is this:
I have one harddrive, 92GB.
I have made 3 partitions.
Partition 0, 40 GB, Vista Home - Game Edition. Include the Master Boot Record.
Partition 1, 25 GB, Vista Home - Work Edition.
Partition 2, 26,5 GB. Media.
Everything works great in dualbooting the systems. No problem. And this is the setup from EasyBCD.
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
default {04e65841-683f-11dd-bc3a-0015c51729f4}
displayorder {04e65841-683f-11dd-bc3a-0015c51729f4}
{04e65842-683f-11dd-bc3a-0015c51729f4}
toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {04e65841-683f-11dd-bc3a-0015c51729f4}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Vista Home - Game Edition
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {c0542bba-6843-11dd-b972-806e6f6e6963}
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {04e65842-683f-11dd-bc3a-0015c51729f4}
device partition=D:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Vista Home - Work Edition
osdevice partition=D:
systemroot \Windows
My question is this: Can I use NeoGRUB and the hide command to hide Vista Work partition when I run Vista Game. And can I use the hide command to hide Vista Game partition when i run Vista Work?
I think running Game(hd0,0) and hide Work(hd0,1) is no problem. But running Work(hd0,1) and hide Game(hd0,0) will fail beacuse Game include the Master Boot Record. Is there any way around this? I only have one drive and can only use one drive(Laptop).
The reason I want to do this is becuse of security.
If anyone have any good suggestion how to solve this I would be very happy!
Addendum:
Or would this work?
1. I make a configuration in Neogrub that hides (hd0,0). Reboot and run it.
2. Restart the computer. It will fail to start beacuse I dont have any drive with MBR. Beacuse (hd0,0) is hidden.
3. Insert Windows Vista CD and re-install on (hd0,1). That way (hd0,1) will include a MBR.
4. Run EasyBCD in Vista(hd0,1). Make a configuration in NeoGRUB that unhide (hd0,0).
5. That way both (hd0,0) and (hd0,1) will have a MBR. And when I hide one of them I can boot from the other one with the other one hidden.
Would that work? Or is there an easier way to do it without reinstalling Vista? Or is this even possible?
If this would work, would this neogrub config file work?
Code:
# NeoSmart NeoGrub Bootloader Configuration File
#
# This is the NeoGrub configuration file, and should be located at C:\NST\menu.lst
# Please see the EasyBCD Documentation for information on how to create/modify entries:
# [URL]http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD[/URL]
default 0
timeout 10
title Vista Home - Game Edition
unhide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
title Vista Home - Work Edition
unhide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,0)
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
makeactive
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