How to: Hide Local Drives Using Command Prompt

Hi everybody. Today I'm going to tell you a idea to hide the specific hard drives in computer using command prompt. Many people knows that local disk can be hidden using group policy editor. But by a simple trick which i m going to describe below, helps to hide the local disk with command prompt. It is not a annoying process, ie we shouldn't access to group policy editor.


Lets begin the steps, how to hide?

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1. Click on Start >  Run
2. In Run box type cmd and hit Enter. Now Command Prompt window will appear.

3. In command prompt, type diskpart and hit Enter.
4. Then type list volume and hit Enter.

Now it will display the list of all your computer drives details.

5. Then type the Drive Letter which you want to hide. If you want to hide volume E, type select volume E and hit Enter.
6. After that, type remove letter E and hit an Enter.

That's all, you have done. Now restart your computer once. When you start your PC again, you want be able to see the particular drive in My Computer.

How to get back Hidden Drive again in My Computer?

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Do the procedure which i have mentioned in step 1,2,3,4 and 5 again.

Click Start --> Run --> cmd -->
Then type diskpart - list volume - select volume E
After that type assign letter E and hit Enter.

That's all !! You have got back the hidden local drive. Once again restart your PC, now you will be able to see hidden local drive in My Computer.

Important:-Don't try to hide the drive which contain window other wise computer can not start.....