How to Hide a Partition/Drive

Here is a cool technique which hides entire hard disk drive partitions by a simple procedure without using Regedit

1.Go to Start> Run and type diskpart

A DOS window will appear with following description

DISKPART>

2.Then type list volume

3.Suppose you want to hide drive E:, type select volume 3.A message will now appear in the window saying "Volume 3 is selected volume"

4.Now type remove letter E .You may have to reboot the Computer.Diskpart will remove the letter.To access the contents of the hidden drive ,repear the process, but in the fourth  step, replace remove to assign

Diskpart

Here is another method with Tweak UI

Tweak UI

Go to Start/Run and type in "tweakui" (without the quotes).

Go to My Computer/Drives and uncheck the drive/partition(s) you want hidden. Click "Apply" or "OK" when finished.

Once hidden, you can still access by typing the drive letter and a colon in Start/Run—for example, "D:" will bring up a folder of the contents on your D drive.

Registry edit Method

Open the Registry Editor by going to Start/Run and typing in "regedit" (without the quotes). Go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

Click on "Explorer".

Double-click the "NoDrives" key in the right column. If you don't find a "NoDrives" registry key, just right-click in the right pane and choose "New/DWORD Value" then name the key "NoDrives".

You'll see a value like "0000 00 00 00 00". This is where the fun starts. The four sets of double zeros (after the "0000") are where you'll enter the values for the drive/partitions. Now, stay with me on this—it's not as complicated as it sounds:

The first column is for drives A-H, the second for I-P, the third for Q-X, and the fourth for Y-Z.

The values for each drive are as follows:

1 - A I Q Y
2 - B J R Z
4 - C K S
8 - D L T
16 - E M U
32 - F N V
64 - G O W
80 - H P X

So, let's say you want to hide drive D. In the first column you would put "08". For drive K you would put "04" in the second column.

But what if you want to hide more than one drive in a column:- Simply add the values together: D+E = 8+16 = 24. So in the first column you would put "24".

The value number for the each drive is:
1 for A I Q Y, 2 for B J R Z, 4 for K C S, 8 for D L T, 16 for E M U, 32 for F N V, 64 for G O V and 80 for H P X.

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