Wednesday, January 26, 2011

How to Hide Hard Disk Partitions in Windows ?

Sometimes our Hard disk contains private data, which you don't want to share with someone, who use same computer. Want to hide your hard disk partition fully in windows operating system? then this trick is helpful to you.

 There is a command available to do this task. It is “diskpart” command which needs to be used in command prompt to get the job done. This technique works only in windows operating systems.


Using this command you can hide the hard disk volumes such as C:\ ,D:\, E:\. Here is the step by step method to carry over it.

1.Type “diskpart” in run command box without quotes. (A command window will get opened)

2.Then type “list volume“. (Your hard disk partitioned volumes will be listed)

3.Now type “select volume ” – (Volume number is the numeric variable which is shown in the volume listing)

4.Type “remove letter – (Volume letter is the alphabetic character of the drive such as C,D,E,F…Z)

Thus your hard disk partition is hidden. If you need to resume it then follow the first three steps as usual and
in the fourth step replace “remove” with “assign“. 

this trick is helpful for parents, who want to hide games & movies from their kids.


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