How To Hide Hard Drives And Partitions In Windows:
Hiding a hard drive or partition in Windows may be a good method of preventing access to the drive's contents. the tactic isn't foolproof tho', and users with enough time on their hand can eventually notice some way to access the contents of the drive, as an example by booting from a Live CD. Still, it works practically to cover it from inexperienced users.
Why would you wish to cover a drive in initial place? perhaps you've got non-public documents on that, and you are doing not wish to risk the youngsters written material or deleting them, otherwise you have some nsfw contents that you just wish to cover.
Hide A Hard Drive or Partition: Command Prompt :
This is one of the easiest options to hide drives in Windows. Open the command prompt to start the process. The easiest way is to press Windows-R, type cmd and hit enter.
Now enter diskpart into the command prompt and hit enter. This may display an User Account Control prompt, make sure to allow it by selecting Yes. Diskpart is the built-in Disk Partitioning program in Windows.
It is a good idea to display a list of all partitions on the drive. To do that enter list volume in the prompt and press enter.
Locate the hard drive that you want to hide and select it in the command prompt. This can be done with the command select volume number, e.g. select volume 4 to select the fourth volume.
You can now use the command remove letter to hide the partition in the operating system. For the above example, remove letter e would remove the drive e from the operating system. The drive becomes inaccessible in Windows Explorer and other programs.
To unhide a drive use the command assign letter, in this case assign letter e. The drive becomes immediately accessible again in Windows.