How to hide hard drives in Windows

     You might be having sensitive data stored on a particular disk drive that you don’t want anyone to see. The best way to protect it from others is to hide it by removing the drive letter assigned to it. This can be achieved easily using Command Prompt:-

Process:-

1) Start >> Run >> Type cmd >> press Enter

2) Type diskpart in the command prompt and press Enter

3) Type list volume.

 

4) Suppose you would like to hide drive E, then, for eg. check the value besides it and type select volume 2

5) Now type remove letter E

(Diskpart will now remove the drive letter. The drive will no longer be available via Windows Explorer or My Computer.)

Note-Don’t worry though, your data remains safe!

Now, you might want to unhide the drive and make it accessible again, just repeat the above process.

6) But instead of typing remove letter E, type  assign letter E.

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