How to hide a folder?

[Thorium]

I remember a nice way of hiding files on DOS and Win9x. But with NTFS partitions it's not that easy. The trick was very common in the DOS era: Basicly you remove the file(s) from the file table of the hard disk and flag the clusters that the files uses as bad or damaged. So the OS will not use this clusters anymore. Then you have to save the information of the file (filename, path, wich clusters it's on) to a database or datafile or whatever. Because you only have to manipulate the file table and set some flags it was very fast. However NTFS is another story.

[Rook Zimbabwe]

I had thought that if a file name started with ! or $ it was invisible? Automatically???

[SFSxOI]

I had thought that if a file name started with ! or $ it was invisible? Automatically???

Nah...take a clue from the Sony root kit fiasco...ie.... $sys$_somenamehere

[Rook Zimbabwe]

I wonder if the $Sys$_NAMEHERE would even work on Vista or 7???

[PB]

> I wonder if the $Sys$_NAMEHERE would even work on Vista or 7???

It doesn't work here on XP, that's for sure.