How to hide hard drive or partition

in Windows 7/8/XP/Vista-Full
procedure
Did you ever thought of How to hide hard drive or partition in
Windows 7/8/XP/Vista? Well, this is quite easily possible. Here in this
post I will tell you detailed procedure of How to hide partition in
Windows 7/8/XP/Vista. Privacy is an integral concern nowadays.
Hiding important files has always been a crucial task. It is difficult to
hide several files or folder one by one. Therefore, this becomes quite
frustrating when you need to hide a huge amount of data. Hence,
create a separate partition, copy all files in it and hide the hard drive
or partition. It is the best way out. There are many ways and tricks to
hide hard drive in Windows. So, here are all step by step procedure to
hide hard drive or partition in Windows 7/8/Xp/Vista.

Also read: How to create invisible folder in Windows

XP/7/8/Vista.

How to hide hard drive or partition in Windows

7/8/XP/Vista: Step by step procedure
Hide Hard drive or partition in Windows 7/8/XP/Vista Using Disk
Management:
At first, right click on My computer. Select Manage. A new
window will appear on your screen. This is Computer Management
window.

Select the Disk Management option on your left. Then, all your
partitions will appear.

Right click on the partition you want to hide. Choose Change

drive letter and paths option.

A new window will pop up on your screen. Click on Remove

option.

You are done. Your desired partition is hidden.

To unhide the partition, follow the same steps but add drive
letter at the last step instead of removing it.
Hide hard drive or partition in Windows 7/8/XP/Vista Using
Command Prompt:

Run Command prompt as administrator. This trick will not work if

you do not run command prompt as administrator.

Type diskpart in your command prompt window. Press enter.

Now type list volume. All the partition will appear.
Type select volume 4. (Select the volume/partition you
want to hide in your pc). Here I am hiding volume 4, E label
partition. So I selected it.
Now type remove letter e.
You are done. Your desired partition is hidden.

To unhide the partition, follow the same steps but type assign
letter e instead of remove letter e in the last step.
Hide hard drive or partition in Windows 7/8/XP/Vista Using
Group Policy Editor:
Press Window + Rbuttons in your keyboard. RUN window will
appear. Type gpedit.msc.Group policy editor window will appear on
your screen.
Now, go to User Configuration and click on Administrative
templates.

Find and double Click on Windows component on your right

options of the dialog box.

Now, find and double click on Windows explorer as shown in

the below snapshot.

Now, find the policy Hide these specified drives in My computer

and double click on it.

 A new window will pop up on your screen. Select the Enable

option. Choose the drives (partition) you want to hide and click OK.

You are done now. The desired hard drives is hidden.

To unhide the partition, follow the same steps but select

Disabled in the last step.
Hide hard drive or partition in Windows 7/8/XP/Vista Using
Registry Editor keys:
Go to RUN and type regedit. Press enter.
Registry editor windows will appear on your screen.
Now, Search for the following keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Curre
ntVersion>Policies>Explorer
Now create a New DWORD (32-bit) value. To create it, just
right click on the Registry Editor window as shown in the below
snapshot and Select New>DWORD Value. (Note: If the key
already exists in your windows then you do not need to do
this step)

 Name the key as Hide Drives or No Drives and press ENTER.

Now, double click on the key. A new window Edit DWORD Value
will appear on your screen. Select the Decimal mode from
Hexadecimal mode. Assign the value of the specified drive. For
example: To hide Drive D, Assign 8 in the Value data field as shown
in the below snapshot. Given below is also the value for different
drives.

Value data for different Drives:

As assigned the value data is in the binary form. Binary means power
of 2. The value is in the form 2n (2 to the power n), where n is the no.
of the alphabetic order of the drive.
A=1
B=2
C=4
D=8
E = 16
F = 32
G = 64
H = 128
I = 256
J = 512
K = 1024
L = 2048
M = 4096
N = 8192

 O = 16384
P = 32768
Q = 65536
R = 131072
S = 262144
T = 524288
U = 1048576
V = 2097152
W = 4194304
X = 8388608
Y = 16777216
Z = 33554432
NOTE: If you want to hide more than one drives or partitions then
enter the sum of the numeric values of the alphabet of the drives. For
eg: If you want to hide Drive: A, D and F. then enter the value as 41
(1+8+32=41) in the value field. If you want to hide all the partition
then enter the value as 67108863.
To unhide the partition, just delete the key Hide drives you
have made.
Also Read: How to recover Deleted files in Windows
XP/7/8/Vista: Solved.
Hide hard drive or partition in Windows 7/8/XP/Vista Using
third party Softwares:
Various softwares are also available free of cost on internet to hide
hard drive or partition in Windows 7/8/XP/Vista. These makes the job
easy for the person who is not such programming type of person. Some
of the softwares are:

MiniTool Partition Wizard (Download it from here).

Drive Locker (Download it from here).
DriveMan (Download it from here).