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Two ways to Hide your drive or partition on your computer.

Day by day hackers are creating new ways to steal the confidential data that are residing on your hard disks by compromising your computer.In order to avoid this type of issue,in this tutorial i am gonna show you how to hide your hard disks using cmd and local group policy editors.so let's see how to hide them.
Two ways to Hide your drive or partition on your computer.

Steps:

Method 1:Using CMD:

1.Run CMD using Administrator rights(Recommended).
2.Now enter "DISKPART" command in it.
3.Optional:In order to see the the entire hard disk enter "list disk".
4.If you want to see the list of drives that are residing on your computer Enter "List volume".
5.Now select the volume which you want to hide.In order to select a volume or drive Enter "select volume "number if the volume" "
6.Now in order to hide the disk,enter "remove letter C or D or E ".After entering the command the specified drive will become invincible.
7.If you want to unlock the drive ,select the volume as done in step 5 and enter "assign letter C or D or E".
Gif image showing how to hide drive using cmd

Video tutorial:

Method 2:Using group policies:

1.Open Run and type 'gpedit.msc'.
2.Now a window will pop up.In that browse to the path given below.
User configuration>>Administrative templates>>Windows components>>Windows explorer.
3.From the list double click on "Hide these specified drives in My computer".
choose 'hide drive'option from windows explorer in gpedit.msc
4.Now choose enable option and the number of drives to be restricted and press ok.
choosing number of drives to be hide in gpedit.msc
5.If you want to unlock the drive,once again go the path and choose disable option.

Video tutorial:


That's it friends i hope you enjoyed the post,if you have any queries feel free to ask us through comments.

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