Have you ever thought of hiding any drive from your system
so that no one can knew about it. You may have heard or even used a lot of
software’s that might be able to do that, but if you are ENTHUSIAST like us and want to do things by
your own without using any 3rd Party Software than this tutorial will show you
how you can do it.
Well in this tutorial we are covering Command Prompt way of doing it.
You can hide the command Prompt using command prompt.
Hide your important Personal drive. So whenever third person or your friend uses
your computer, they won't know there is known hidden drive. So you can hide a file from a third person.
How
to do?
Just follow my steps to hide the drive.
Step 1. Open command Prompt, go to Start Menu > All
Programs >Accessories > Command prompt or Press window +r and type cmd
> Enter
Step 2. In the Command Prompt, type Diskpart and hit enter key. If UAC (User
Account Control), dialog-box prompts than click Yes.
Step 3. Then type List Volume and press enter, this will produce the list of
all drives.
Step 4. Now select the drive which you want to hide, you can
either do this by typing Select Volume 1 (i.e. Volume Number) or by typing
Select Volume C (i.e. Drive letter)
Step 5. To hide a drive, type Remove Letter C. Here, C is the
drive letter than you want to hide. You can use any drive letter you want.
Step 6. That’s it. You are done! C drive is now hidden
How to Unhide Hidden Drive
Step 1. Follow the procedure mentioned
in step 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Step 2. To show the hidden drive
type Assign Letter C and hit enter, now you can view C: drive in explorer.
That’s it. This is one way of hiding and
un-hiding drives from explorer.