Hello friends, Today we will learn how to hide and unhide
the local hard drives. Well, most of us uses different types of paid or free
softwares to hide their local hard drives. If you have lots of important or
valuable data which you don’t want to share with anyone then this article will help
you how to hide your that particular hard drive from others for security point
of view. You don’t have to purchase or to do any registration for it. Just in 4
steps, with the help of commands, you can hide as well as unhide your hard
drives on your computer.
How to hide local hard drives:-
1.) Go to Start > Run
or Press window+R and then type diskpart and select OK.
2.) A new window will open. Type list volume in that window
and press enter. It will open all the partitions or local drives on your hard
disk like below in the pic.
3.) Now type select volume x (x is the volume which you want
to hide) and press enter. For example:- I want to hide the Y: drive then i will
type select volume 3 and press enter. It will show volume 3 is the selected
volume like below in the pic.
4.) Now type remove letter z (z is the name of the drive which
you want to hide) and press enter. For example:- I want to hide the drive Y:
then i will type remove letter Y and press enter. It will show the message Diskpart
successfully removed the drive letter or mount point.
Your selected drive is hidden now.
How to unhide local hard drives:-
1.) Go to Start > Run
or Press window+R and then type diskpart and select OK.
2.) A new window will open. Type list volume in that window
and press enter. It will open all the partitions or local drives on your hard .
3.) Now type select volume x (x is the volume which you want
to unhide) and press enter. For example:- I want to unhide the Y: drive then i
will type select volume 3 and press enter. It will show volume 3 is the
selected volume .
4.) Now type assign letter z (z is the name of the drive which
you want to unhide) and press enter. For example:- I want to unhide the drive
Y: then i will type assign letter Y and press enter. It will show the message
Diskpart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.
For any query, comment below.
Credits:- Yuvraj Salaria
