How to hide Hard Disk Partitions from Everyone

Dear Friends,

This is a very important tutorial to hide your hard disk partitions from your mischievous friends. This also ensures the protection of your important data.

Steps-

(1)   Navigate to Start then RUN command prompt.

(2)   Type diskpart and Press Enter.

A DOS window will appear. Press Enter.

DISKPART>

                      

(3)   Type list volume
The result screen will look like one as shown above.

(4)   If you want to hide drive H then type select volume 7

Then a message will appear. {Volume 7 is the selected volume.}

                    

      (5) Now type remove letter H
            Now a message will appear.

          {DiskPart successfully removed the drive letter or mount point.}

                          

Done.

    Note-Windows XP doesn’t have the capability to identify the unknown volume.
              Your data is now safe from unofficial users.

     (6) To access the content of hidden Drive, type assign letter H

                                

Now a message will appear. {DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.}

That’s all.

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