making a linux partition hidden in Windows disk management

[Brazen]

I'm setting up a workstation for a friend's business (actually re-setting up, since it was loaded with viri). To expedite the process in the future, I left a couple gigs of unpartitioned space on the drive, put a linux partition with xfs on there and used Clonezilla to make an image of the Windows partition saved to the xfs linux partition.

So anyway, to avoid confusion, and the possibility of one of his staff wandering into disk management and deleting the "unknown" partition, is there any way to make that space not show up at all in linux?

I've toyed with the idea of changing the partition type to "hidden fat" or "hidden ntfs" but was not sure if that would trash the data and prevent me from changing the type back to "linux" and retrieving the backup image.

 

[sourceninja]

Not sure how to hide it, but if you had used ext3 you could use the windows ext2 driver and then hid the partition from having a drive letter. At least that way it would show up as a ext2 partition and could have a volume name such as recovery.

 

[Nothinman]

There's no real way to hide a partition, those "hidden" types just change the type to something other than FAT or NTFS (think they add a certain number to the type) but it still shows up.