Hide your Hard Disk Drives | Hide Important data from other USERS

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When you need to secure your important data from other users, there are so many choice over there like folder protect,hide folder and much more. But imagine if your data size is more than 100 GB then it is not easy to burn it on CD or protect it. So don’t worry friends, I am posting a trick by using this trick you can save your full drive by hiding it from other users. You can hide your drives without any Registry Edit.


Follow the simple steps…

1. Log on as Administrator

2. Click on Start button then click on Run > Type CMD

run cmd Hide your Hard Disk Drives | Hide Important data from other USERS
3.Now type diskpart at the command prompt and wait for 5 seconds to appear diskpart> utility.

diskpart Hide your Hard Disk Drives | Hide Important data from other USERS

4.To show the list of volume, type list volume command after the diskpart> prompt, this command will show you all system drives detail.

show volume Hide your Hard Disk Drives | Hide Important data from other USERS

5.Now Select the volume that you want to hide for example

If you want to hide F drive then first type select volume 2 (in this case) and hit enter button.

select volume Hide your Hard Disk Drives | Hide Important data from other USERS

6.After selecting volume, type Remove letter F (in this case) to hide F drive.

hide drive Hide your Hard Disk Drives | Hide Important data from other USERS

7. DONE. Now you hide your drive successfully..to verify go to My Computer and check drives icon smile Hide your Hard Disk Drives | Hide Important data from other USERS

8.But next time, when you want to unhide the F drive, just type assign letter F command after loading volume 2.

Enjoy. In case of any problem feel free to comment here. Just let me know if this trick work for your. Just drop your comment here.

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3 Responses to “Hide your Hard Disk Drives | Hide Important data from other USERS”

  1. Anonymous says:

    there is a mistake in 8th point i.e., instead of ‘drive’ we have to type ‘letter’
    then its working
    thanks dude

  2. √ДMPIRE says:

    Thanks dude for showin mistake

    I replaced it :)

    U R always welcome dude

  3. avantika says:

    whwn i done this with drive f then it is representing that the letter f is not assigned with this volume so what shall i do now

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