Hide Any Drive In Simple Steps

Although i have been using a computer for a few years now, i was surprised to find out that i never wondered whether i could make any drive of my hard drive invisible. Well that was before i read about it recently. And the answer is - yes you can !! Here are a few steps, follow them and you can make any of the drives in your system hidden so that anyone else cannot access it :

1. Open the start menu and click on Run...
2. Type 'cmd' in the box that appears and click ok
3. You will see a command prompt window like the one below
   
4. In the prompt type 'diskpart'. Another window similar to the one before will appear with something like 'DISKPART>'.
5. In this prompt type 'list volume'. This should give you a set of drives that you have on your computer along with the volume numbers with which they are identified.
   
6. Now select the volume that you want to hide by typing 'select volume 4'. Here '4' is the volume no that i have selected. You can choose the corresponding drive by replacing '4' with the volume no of that drive.
7. Now type 'remove letter E'. Again 'E' corresponds to the drive name with volume no 4. You can replace 'E' with the drive name you want to hide.
8. Once this is done you will notice that the drive has disappeared from My Computer.

Now let me tell you how to Unhide the drive :

1. Follow the first 6 steps as before
2. Then instead of remove type 'assign letter E'.
3. A message should be displayed that it is successfully assigned.

Via: Tutzone