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What does “hidden” mean?

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What does “hidden” mean?

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This means not visible to a booting or booted OS, traditionally due to the hidden status bit in the partition type byte in the partition table entry. With newer OS versions it can also mean that access to the partition has not explicitly been enabled by a storage device access manager.

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