Protect personal files by Hiding Hard Disk Drives

Hello guys, Today I will show you how to hide personal drive from your computer. That means, suppose you have 4 local drive such as local disk C, D, E & F. But E drive is your secret and personal driver. So you need to hide it from other people. If your computer starts other people like your friend or colleague, they can browse your secret drive and may harm on your personal file. So if you hide that folder, they will not be able to see and browse your secret drive. This method is the hiding driver. Hiding windows driver is very easy. You don't need any password. Just follow some steps and you will be able to hide windows drive without any password. There are two methods I know how to hide windows disk drives. So now I will share these two methods with you.

1st Method:

The 1st method of hiding windows drives is very easy. You shall have to open "cmd" and hide drives by typing here. Read the instructions carefully:

1. At first open "cmd" from Start Menu or type "cmd" in the "Run" window and press enter.
2. After opening "cmd", type "Diskpart" and press enter. 
3. Wait a little and a new will be opened. Now write "list volume" in the new opened window and press enter.
4. You will see your disk drives lists. Now your work is to hiding your drives. Now if your drive number is 4 that means if you want to hide "D" drive, write "Select Volume 4" and press enter. Then again write "remove letter D" and press enter. 
5. Then browse your windows disk drives and you will not see the number of 4 drive which means you will not see "D" drives.
6. You can also hide the other drives at a same way.
7. At last, if you un-hide this drives again, like before go to "Run" and type "Diskpart", press enter, write "list volume", press enter, write "Select Volume 4", press enter and at last write "Assign Letter D" instead of "remove letter D" and press enter. Then you will again see your hidden drive. Now you're all OK.

2nd Method:

The second method is also easy. But on this method you don't need to write anything. You will be able to hide your windows drives by clicking mouse. So be ready to start hiding windows drives. Follow my steps and enjoy drive hiding.

1. At first open "Run" from "Start Menu" or pressing "Windows Menu+R". Then write "gpedit.msc" and click "OK".
2. A new window will be opened. Now click "Administrative Templates" under the "User Configuration Menu". Then click on "Windows Components". Many setting will be opened. But find "Windows Explorer" and click on it. Clicking on it search for this setting named "Hide these specified drives in My Computer" 
3. Then select "Enabled" and you will see "Options" under it. Then click on sub-menu and select "Restrict All Drives" if you want to hide all of your disk drives. Otherwise you can hide only one drives by clicking other options, like "Restrict C drive only" or "Restrict D drive only" etc. After completing this process click on "Apply" and "OK". 
4. Now browse "My Computer" and you will see that there are no windows drives. That means your drives are hidden.
5. To see your drives again select "Disabled" or "Not Configured" instead of "Enabled" and click OK.
6. Then you will again see your windows disk drives.

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