Hide your disk drives to secure data from other users

If you want to secure any data from other users, many of you will put it in the pen-drives or make a copy in the CD's or DVD's. But what if the data is too large like 10-20 GB or probably more. Well you don't have to worry about it, now you can restrict the access to any of the disk drive for any other user. You can hide any specific disk drive and you can save your data from other users.

To hide the partition of hard disk follow these simple steps :

• Firstly, you have to logged in with administrative rights

• Open command prompt (click Start >> Run and type cmd)

• Type 'diskpart' in the command prompt and a new diskpart prompt will appear

• Then type 'list volume' and press enter

• Now you'll see a list as shown below

• See the volume number of the drive you want to hide, let us consider drive D with volume number 2

• Then type 'select volume 2' and you'll get a message that 'Volume 2 is the selected volume'

• Now type 'remove letter D' (it is to be noted that, you can only remove the letter of the selected volume, ie. you cannot remove letter E if volume 2 is selected)

• That's it your D drive will hide when you reboot your computer

• Now to recover the drive again, follow the above procedure till selection of volumes

• And instead of typing 'remove letter D' type 'assign letter D'

• Just restart the computer, and there it is your drive appears again