Hide an drive using Cmd prompt

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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