Sunday, July 3, 2011

How to hide windows drive


Some times, you have sensitive or important data that you don't want anyone to see. To get through this tedious task we have an easy solution. You can do this in two ways
Using Disk Manager.
  1. Right click "My Computer" and select "Manage". This will bring up the computer management window.
  2. Now select disk management in the left menu and all your available drive details will come up on the right side. Select the disk you want to hide and click on "Change Drive Letter and Paths".
  3. Click on the "Remove" button in the new window that pops up. You will be asked to confirm if you want to remove the drive.
  4. You can always un-hide the drive by going the same route. Right click on the drive you want to un-hide, select "Change Drive Letter and Paths" and press the "Add" button in the popup window.
Using Diskpart.
  1. Go To Start --> Run or use Win+R keys and type "diskpart". This will open up the diskpart command prompt.
  2. In the diskpart command prompt, type "list volume" and type enter.
    This will show all the volumes or drives available in your computer. 
  3. Now let's say you want to remove drive E which has volume no. 4. Type "select volume 4" and press enter. Remember to substitute 4 with volume no. of the drive that you want to hide.
  4. Now to hide the drive, type "remove letter E" and press enter. Please remember to substitute E with the drive you want to remove.
    That's it. Now you can see that the drive E is not visible any more.
  5. To bring it back, simply type "assign letter E" and the drive will be unhidden. If you are opening diskpart again to un-hide a drive, make sure to run "select volume 4" first.

This article- Hide Windows Drive or Partition Easily., was originally published in Skipser.
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