Thursday, 26 January 2012
How to hide hard drives in Windows XP/Vista/7
If you want to learn how to hide hard drives in Windows XP/Vista/7 then you've come to the right place. This article explains how to achieve just that.
If you have sensitive or important data stored on a particular disk drive that you don’t want anyone to see, a great way to hide it is to remove the drive letter assigned to a particular mounted volume. With Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can hide hard drives easily using nothing more than the Command Prompt. Here's how:
- Click Start >> Run (This brings up the Run dialog box)
- Type cmd and press Enter (This brings up the Windows Command Prompt)
- Type diskpart in the command prompt and press Enter (This launches the Diskpart utility within the Command Prompt window)
- Now type list volume (This displays a list of all mounted volumes on your computer and their associated drive letters)
- Using the above picture as reference, if, for example, you would like to hide drive E, type select volume 6
- Now type remove letter E (Note: This sometime requires a reboot)
Diskpart will now remove the drive letter. The drive will no longer be available via Windows Explorer or My Computer.
Don’t worry though, your data remains safe!
Now, should you want to unhide the drive and make it accessible again, just repeat the above process. But instead of typing remove letter E, type assign letter E
By following the simple process above you will easily learn how to hide hard drives in Windows XP/Vista/7
This post was written by: cyberst0rm
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9 Responses to “How to hide hard drives in Windows XP/Vista/7”
12 August 2007 at 01:27
How did you learn all this information you have on your site?
12 August 2007 at 12:19
Years of computing experience...that and reading multiple blogs and RSS feeds :)
22 November 2007 at 09:14
If you are using a real operating system just comment out the entry in /etc/fstab
22 November 2007 at 11:14
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844/
You can also just run "compmgmt.msc" to get to Computer Management and skip step 2 and half of 3 from their instructions.
18 December 2011 at 21:41
i ned a help bro... i did hw u teach us 2 hide the hard disk but nw i cnt recover or make the hard disk visible... please help me bro !!!!!!!!
30 January 2012 at 10:05
great work man...thanks a lot...keep up the good work
12 March 2012 at 12:06
Very good triCk man,,
thnks alot :)
28 April 2012 at 12:54
oh thanks CyberStorm for sharing this knowledge
02 June 2012 at 06:48
thnxx alot....man. ;)
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