Sunday, December 20, 2009

Do you want to hide drive from others?

You want to hide your important documents, movies and other stuffs from others.Just do as I say.
Here it is how it works.
To hide the drive.
Step 1: Go to cmd i.e command prompt.
Step2: Type
diskpart
press enter

Step 3: Type
list volume
It will show list of drives of your hard disk (E.g label 1 for C:)
Step 4: Type
select volume number
(number includes 1 ,2 ,3 ,4 and so on).Instead of number type 1 or 2 or 3 as per your wish which drive you want to hide
Step 5: Type
remove letter d
(in place of D you can type other drive letter E F G H and so on.Don't try to hide the drive which contain operating system)

Some system might require to restart your computer.

To retrieve the drive
Its simple follow up to Step 4 and after step 4 do the following
assign letter D
This will retrieve the hidden drive.
Enjoy your hiding.

If you like this post I'll come with more tips and tricks

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