Hello.
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 G: from My Computer:
After following these 3 steps:
01. Go To Start –> Run or use Win+R keys and type this and press Ok
For Vista/Windows 7 02. This will open Command Prompt for you. Now type below text and press Enter:
Once in Diskpart type below text and press Enter:
This will list all the partitions. Now as in my example I want to Hide Partition G: and it has Volume no. 10. So my next command will be:
Remember to change 10 with the volume number of your partition you want to hide and press Enter: 03. Now as in my example I am hiding drive G: so my last command will be below and then press Enter:
All done. Now open your computer and see that drive is made hidden:
Follow first 2 steps as such but in step 3 instead of remove letter G use below command:
For Vista/Windows 7 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.
The commands becomes slightly different here:
Format A USB Pen Drive With NTFS File System
How To Download Youtube Videos
Increase Firefox speed by 10-30x
Backup Firefox Profile And Restore It
7 Responses to Hide Any Drive In 3 Steps
acai supplements March 31, 2009
Very interesting. My computers are locked with a password all the time. I’m not sure hiding a drive is going to provide needed security.
Bariski March 31, 2009
Well it helps when you share your Pc with your friends and you got few personal things in your drives. :)
indra June 24, 2009
nice bariski, thanks for triks
Md. Shoyeb November 27, 2011
your method is so wonderful
BINOY KUMAR BARANWAL December 25, 2011
thnks brother
brar January 5, 2012
thnx…it really helps//
Saurabh February 11, 2012
trick is fine…but suppose i dont want to show system reserved drive then?? Will it able to boot after restart?