Here the need of hiding a hard drive is explained in a much better way. There are four different manual procedures available to hide disk partitions in Windows 10 and below.
All of them are discussed below:. A user can hide disk partition using Windows Registry but a user must note that any wrong changes to the Windows registry will corrupt the whole Window. To hide drive using Windows Registry a user need to follow the steps mentioned below: Windows registry key uses the NoDrives registry key to hide drive.
After adding key to the registry, a user must take a backup of the registry as it most important registry of Windows. A user can hide a drive using group policy make hard drive hidden by following the steps mentioned below:. Most of the times users want to hide their files and folder from other access to make the hard drive hidden. I come here for help! I have a Dell computer with Windows 7 installed on.
Partition D is the recovery partition that contains important files to restore my computer to factory default settings. To avoid accidental file deletion on it, I want to make it invisible in Windows Explorer. Is there anyone you tell me how to hide a drive in Windows 7? Hide a partition via a thrid-party party tool. To make a drive disappears from Explorer, you can remove its drive letter via diskpart by following steps given below:. Or you can hide your drive using Group Policy Editor without removing its drive letter.
Here are the detailed steps:. To hide a drive, firstly, open Run box, input gpedit. Choose Enable option and you can choose the drive that you want to hide. Method 1. Right-click the Windows Start menu.
This displays a pop-up menu above the Windows Start drive. Click Disk Management. It's in the pop-up menu that appears when you right-click the Windows Start menu. This opens the Disk Management applications. Right-click the disk drive you want to hide.
This displays a menu next to the drive. You can right-click the drive name in the list at the top, or the drive allocation tiles at the bottom of Disk Management.
Click Change Drive Letter and Paths. This opens a separate window that allows you to add, change, or remove the drive letter. Make sure the drive is selected and click Remove. The drive should be highlighted in blue when it is selected. Clicking Remove removes the drive letter from the drive. An alert will appear. It's in the alert that appears when you remove the letter of the disk drive.
The alert informs you that some programs may not work properly if the letter is missing. Click Yes to continue. This removes the letter from the disk drive. Removing the drive letter from the disk drive will prevent it from appearing in File Explorer.
If that's all you want, you can stop here. Continue to the next step if you want to create a hidden folder on a separate drive that you can use to access the hidden disk drive. Right-click the drive with the missing drive letter. This opens a menu next to the drive. Make sure the drive is selected and click Add. Clicking Add displays options to add a new drive letter, or mount the drive in a different location. It's the second radio option in the "Add drive letter or path" window. Click Browse.
This allows you to select a specific location where you can access the drive. Navigate to the location you want to create a folder to access the hidden drive. Double-click the drive you want to add the folder in, and then double-click the folder s you want to place the folder in. Click New Folder. It's to the right in the "Browse for drive path" window. Type a name for the folder and click Ok. This creates a new folder for the drive location.
Give the folder a name you can remember, such as "Secret Drive" or "Hidden Drive. Click Ok. This will allow you to access the disk drive by clicking the mount folder you selected in Disk Management. For additional security, you can hide the folder that contains the drive mount location in File Explorer.
That way it will only appear if show hidden files and folders in File Explorer. Method 2. Group Policy Editor is available on all versions of Windows. However, it is disabled on Windows 10 Home Edition. Extract the contents of the zip file. Navigate to the "gpedit-windowshome. Right-click the file and click Run as Administrator. Wait for the script to finish running in the Command Prompt. This opens the Run application on Windows.
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