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How To Hide Drive In Windows 7, 8, 10 PC (4 Ways)


How To Hide Drive In Windows 7, 8, 10 PC
Windows OS is the most popular PC OS in the world. It is most used everywhere and everyone is familiar with it. It is developed by Microsoft and is also known for being one of the first GUI based OS. Windows has been updated constantly which means new and innovative features are added with every version of windows. Many users have private files on their windows laptops and computers that they want to hide. Some people use folder lock software for hiding files and no doubt even we can hide files and folder in windows by using inbuilt feature. But what about hiding whole drive and secure out secure our secret data from other without worrying, and if you are looking for a way to do so, then we have great solutions to hide drive in windows. We have the best methods to hide an entire local disk from your computer. So below given are the few best ways regarding hiding local drives, choose any method which you find suitable and working.

How To Hide Drive In Windows Based System.

Method 1:- Hide Local Disk Drive Partition By Group Policy.

hide drives group policy
Step 1. Press “win+r” to open run window.
Step 2. Type “gpedit.msc” and press enter.
Step 3. From the open window, navigate to :
User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/File Explorer
Step 4. Double click on Hide these specified drives in My Computer and select Enabled.
Step 5. Select the Drive you want to hide. Then save and exit.
Note: This method will only hide the drive and its icon from my computer and anywhere in the windows explorer. Yet drive can still be accessed via directly entering the path in Windows explorer.
Unhide Method : Just select the “Do not restrict drives” option in the drop down list in step 5.

Method 2:- Hide Drive In Windows By Command Prompt.

hide drive using cmd
Step 1. Open an elevated command prompt, type Diskpart and hit Enter.
Step 2. Type List Volume and hit Enter.
Step 3. Now type select and the numeral against the letter of the Drive (eg. it could be G Drive), which you want to hide. For instance, it could be Select Volume 6. Hit Enter.
Step 4. Finally, type “Remove Letter G” and hit Enter.
Step 5. You will see a message – Diskpart successfully removed the drive letter or mount point.
Unhide Method : To show the hidden drive, follow steps 1, 2, 3 mentioned above.
Now type “Assign Letter D” and hit Enter. This will show the drive in Explorer.

Method 3:- Hide Local Volume By Disk Management.

hide drive by disk management
Step 1. Right click on “My Computer” and click on Manage.
Step 2. In the Window, open storage.
Step 3. Double click on disk management. Now you can see all the partition of your hard disk.
Step 4. Choose the drive you want to hide, then right click on it. Select “change letter and paths”. Click on remove.
Step 5. Confirm YES to complete.
Unhide Method : Just open disk management and assign a letter and path to the hidden drive again.

Method 4:- Hide Drive By Using Software Windows Drive Hider.

Windows Drive Hider is a software that lets you hide your hard disk drive partitions from showing up in your windows explorer. It is the quickest way to hide your drives. This simple tool gives the option to hide the drive from a single as well as all users. The best thing about this method is that there is a simple and easy to use interface that is very helpful to the users. It is portable and very easy to install and uninstall. This makes it a perfect tool for hiding drives in a windows PC. You can download it from here :
windows drive hider
In conclusion, these are the best methods to hide drive in windows OS in other words hide your local disk drive partition. Feel free to contact us in case you need any help in the above guides.

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