4 Steps to Hide Any Drive on Windows 7, Vista & XP

By Abhinav Prakash on January 26, 2010
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If you have been wondering how to hide a drive completely on your system,hide then here we provide you with an easy, step by step guide for doing it…and yes that is without the use of any software!!

Steps to hide your drive:

Step 1.

Go to Start–>Run or use Windows+R keys and type:

diskpart

step1

and press Enter. When prompted, press Continue.

Step 2:

Now you are in Diskpart. Type:

list volume and press Enter. This lists all the partitions of hard disk.step2

Step 3:

Here we will show you how to hide the disk partition F. So the next command will be:
select volume 2 and press Enter.

step3

Step 4:

Now the last command will be:

remove letter F and then press Enter.

step4

After this restart your computer and the respective drive will be hidden!

Now to show your drive again, follow the steps 1 and 2 and then:
For XP you should type:
assign letter f

For Vista/Windows 7 you should type:

assign letter=f

And you have successfully unlocked the Hidden Drive.

Hope this guide helps you. Do let us know if you face any problems in executing the above procedure and we will try to fix it!!

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Abhinav Prakash

Abhinav Prakash

Abhinav Prakash is a technology lover and covers tips, tricks & tutorials on Microsoft Windows. He also writes on latest Technology gadgets, Web services & Windows applications. View author profile

  • ashesh

    Thanks for the great posts… This information of hiding folders is particularly very useful!!!

  • Riyu Kh

    But I just want to hide that drive from vieing. But want to make the programs in it accessible through short cuts in desktop. will it work? itried to do it by editing group registry. but there is no option to hide E anf F drives which I want to hide

  • Grats

    Thank you.

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