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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Hide any drive in windows

Most of you must have wondered if there exists a way without using software to Hide A Drive completely so that it cannot be viewed or accessed without unlocking it. Well for those who have and who haven't yet, here is a easiest method on How To Hide Any Drive In Just 3 Steps.

Here we go, follow these 3 simple steps:

In my example I will hide Drive Volume B: from My Computer:

After following these 3 steps:

01. Go To Start -- Run or use Win+R keys and type this and press Ok

cmd

For Vista/Windows 7

02. This will open Command Prompt for you. Now type below text and press Enter:

diskpart

Note: In Window Vista and higher you will get a security warning, bypass it clicking on allowing.
Once in Diskpart type below text and press Enter:

list volume

This will list all the partitions. Now as in my example I want to Hide Partition B: and it has Volume no. 5. So my next command will be:

select volume 5
Remember to change 5 with the volume number of your partition you want to hide and press Enter:

03. Now as in my example I am hiding drive B: so my last command will be below and then press Enter:

remove letter B

All done. Now open your computer and see that drive is made hidden:

Now to make a drive Unhidden
Follow first 2 steps as such but in step 3 instead of remove letter B use below command:

assign letter B

For Vista/Windows 7
The commands becomes slightly different here:

assign letter=B

You have successfully unlocked the Hidden Drive.

Hope this Helps. Please leave a reply if I am not clear anywhere, I would help you out..


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