Grub Hide & Partition ID Issues

[Elm, Rob]

Hello Bug-Grub,
                           I'm not a super Grub user but I have one big issue 
with Grub I was hoping someone would help me out with. 
 
First of all, why does the hide command just increase your partition type by 
10? For example if you had a partition type of 83, issuing: hide (hd0,1) would 
turn it into a type 93 partition. A type 5 extended partition would be changed 
to a type 15 partition.
 
Secondly, how do you hide a partition from Windows XP? I've found that Windows 
XP will not assign partitions drive letters during setup if they're set to a 
specific type. Example: settype (hd0,1) 0xDE will prevent the Windows XP setup 
from assigning your first partition as C: where as: hide (hd0,1) will not do 
this successfully.  I've hidden partitions in the past using Partition Magic, 
Randish Partition Manager and XOSL which have successfully worked in this 
circumstance.
 
Sincerely,
 
Rob Elm 
Clark Consulting 
address@hidden 
www.clarkconsulting.com 
NYSE: CLK
 
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