How to Hide your Hard disk partition

By VJ | Nov 26, 2007

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Sometimes it happens that you share computer with your friend and don’t want them to know what data you have in hard drives. You can use some software to encrypt or hide the data, but what in case if you want to get away from this hassles and hide your full drive. Well to do so you just need to make changes in your group policy. Here’s what you need to do.

  • Go to Start –> Run –> gpedit.msc
  • Go to User Configuration –> Administration Template –> Windows Components –> Windows Explorer
  • now on the right side, look for the policy that says, “Hide these specific drives in my computer” and go to Properties
  • Enable it and then select the drives you wan to hide
  • Hide Hard Disk

  • Click Ok ,and you are done

P.S. : - This method will only hide a drive in my computer, and other users can access it by other means like via Run command, Dos, Shortcuts, and even computer management.

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7 Comments so far
  1. Nirmal November 27, 2007 10:50 am

    I had used this feature, but using the Tweak XP software. This looks cool.

  2. Anista December 17, 2007 2:52 pm

    I tried using this method but the disk I want to hide is E and its not given in the list. So how else can I hide this. Can I do this through Folder options?

  3. KARTHIK. B. G. February 16, 2008 11:35 pm

    Hi,

    Thanks a lot buddy….
    The above mentioned thing works great in XP….
    Cool, keep doing the great job for people like me!!

  4. Ashish March 10, 2008 11:27 am

    Thanks Friend!

    I will use.

  5. susheel April 3, 2008 12:30 am

    How
    I can come back on that drive:

  6. VJ April 3, 2008 3:05 pm

    You need to disable or select Not configured, which will make it back t normal.

  7. Jokonoko June 23, 2008 9:02 am

    Just to add, this works well on vista as well.

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