If you want to know why the internal and USB differ you have to know Windows NT history and the discussions about the SCSI shim implemented to support IDE and SATA drives. It's a long story and not one I will get into except that is why internal and USB shall differ from Windows NT all the way up to 10. Can't speak past that.
Now this will upset those that want it to do something else than what Microsoft supported.
Try this the other way. Don't create partitions before the OS install. Let the Windows installer setup the drive then shrink and create your other partitions after the install with GPARTED. It should be different but given you do not control mounting and display of drives in Windows (not open source, etc.) the usual end of the discussion is usually with the OP flaming everyone.
HI everyone,
I get Windows 7, a question on one SATA disk of 1.5TB.
I formatted it as GPT with GPARTED (standalone) with many partitions NTFS on it, some hidden, some not..
This is NOT a system disk.
When I reload windows 7, EVERY partition is loaded and assigned to a letter.
Some with the status OEM (and then they appear twice on the disk management of Wondows) some normally as a "main partition"
2 questions:
- why an OEM partition and how to change that status to a normal one
- What is curious is that I do not get the same satus on the same partitions when I put my disk on a SATA port inside my computer and when I put my disk on an USB station for external sata disk.
ANY Idea on how to handle that problem.
My ultimate goal is to choose which partition is hidden or not (I tried that with Gparted, but it does not change anything)
THANK YOU

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