Hide partitions in windows disk management

In Windows, you may want to hide some partitions in Windows Disk Manager to prevent damage from Windows, this guide will tell you how to change gpt partition's attribute to mark a partition as system partition.

DANGER

Please carefully read each step and comments.
Wrong actions may damage your GPT table and brick your device.

Requirement

A phone in Windows or Android/Linux
Diskpart in Windows, gdisk in Linux, termux+gdisk+root in android.

Steps in Windows

Open a terminal with administrator permission.
Type diskpart and enter .
List all disks

powershell

lis dis

Choose the disk contains your target partition, use 1 for example here.

powershell

sel dis 1

List all partitions in this disk

powershell

lis par

Select your target partition, use 1 for example here.

powershell

sel par 1

Get partition current gpt attribute

powershell

det par
# Partition 1
#  Type    : d32b7c28-e321-21cc-1122-12acc91ec92b
#  Hide  : No
#  Necessary: No
#  Attribute  : 0X1C00000000000000
#  Bytes Offset: 1234

Set system bit in partition gpt attribute.
- system bit is the lowest bit.

DANGER

Please ONLY set the last bit to 1.

powershell

GPT ATTRIBUTES=0x1C00000000000001

Set system bit for all partitions in a lun can make the lun invisible in Windows device manager.

Steps in Android/Linux

Install Termux
General setup, and setup gptfdisk

bash

# Replace mirror
#  *Use space to select and enter to confirm*
termux-change-repo 
# Update
apt update
# Install root repo
apt install root-repo
# Install gdisk
apt install tsu gptfdisk

Open gdisk

bash

tsu # when termux request root permission, please agree.
gdisk /dev/block/sdx # x can be a, b, or other letters

Enter expert mode

bash

x
# Expert command (? for help):

Change partition's attribute

bash

# Expert command (? for help): 
a # Change partition attribute
# Partition number:
1 # Enter partition number
# Known attributes are:
# 0: system partition
# 1: hide from EFI
# 2: legacy BIOS bootable
# 60: read-only
# 62: hidden
# 63: do not automount

# Attribute value is 10C0000000000000. Set fields are:
# 54 (Undefined bit #54)
# 55 (Undefined bit #55)
# 60 (read-only)

# Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or <Enter> to exit): 
0 # System bit
# Have enabled the 'system partition' attribute.
# Attribute value is 10C0000000000001. Set fields are:
# 0 (system partition)
# 54 (Undefined bit #54)
# 55 (Undefined bit #55)
# 60 (read-only)

Set system bit for all partitions in a lun can make the lun invisible in Windows device manager.

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Hide partitions in windows disk management

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