Many people have been concerned about privacy and security. But they depend on third party apps to lock their files or hide their folders. Why to depend on Third party apps.? Here is a simple tutorial to Hide an Hard Disk Drive using command Prompt.
How to Hide a Local Drive using command prompt?
Step 1:
Open Command Prompt
Step 2:
Type DISKPART and hit Enter
Step 3:
Type list volume and hit Enter
Step 4:
Command Prompt displays all the partitions of the Hard Drive :
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 System Rese NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy System Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 48 GB Healthy Boot Volume 2 D Softwares NTFS Partition 97 GB Healthy Volume 3 F Books & Ref NTFS Partition 86 GB Healthy
Then type the Drive Letter that you want to hide. If you want to hide volume D, type :
select volume D
Then type the Drive Letter that you want to hide. If you want to hide volume D, type :
remove letter D
Now restart your computer. When you start your PC again, you wont be able to see the particular drive in My Computer.
How to get back Hidden Drive again
Step 1:
Open Command Prompt
Step 2:
Type DISKPART and hit Enter
Step 3:
Type list volume and hit Enter
Step 4:
If you want to unhide volume D, type select volume D and hit Enter.
Now your drive will be shown