hide and unhide Disk Drive Partitions

hide and unhide Disk Drive Partitions

IN GUI MODE

Here is a simple way to hide and unhide Disk Drive Partitions from My Computer in any version of windows. This deosn't work with Windows OS that cannot support NTFS.
How to hide a partition in Windows?

• Right-Click on My Computer [Computer in Windows Vista and Windows 7]
• Click on Manage
• From the list of options Click on Disk Management that will be located in the left-bottom section
• All your hard disk and its partitions will be show in the right hand side
• Right-Click on the partition that you want to hide and select "Change Drive Letters and Path"
• Click on "Remove" and click "Yes"
• Your drive will now be hidden in my computer

To unhide the drive :

• Go to Disk Management Right-Click on the hidden partition [there will not be a drive letter on the hidden drive] again select "Change Drive Letters and Path"
• Click on add and select an appropriate drive letter.
• Click Ok
• Now the drive is unhided.

IN COMMAND PROMPT

1. Click Start – Run
2. Type “cmd” in the open box
3. In command prompt window, type “diskpart” , and then press enter!

4. Type “list volume” and press enter

The above command will show hard drive volume information.
For example, your secret files are in drive E. Thus I want to hide E. From the figure above, keep in mind that drive E’s volume is “volume 2″ and drive E’s letter is “E”.

5. Type “select volume 2″ and press enter
6. Type “remove letter E” and press enter

Done! Now your drive E has been hidden, you can now exit command prompt.

How to unhide / restore your hidden disk partition?
Do all steps (1-5), on the step 6 type “assign letter E” instead