Quick trick to hide drives in windows without any software

Hello Friends, I am here with the new windows trick to hide specific drive in windows, In my last tutorial i had shown you how to hide folder in windows Here we’ll talk about hiding whole drive, As you know anyone from your friends and family can use your computer, So if you have your private files in your computer then that files are not safe, So you need a program to safe your data from other peoples, Using this trick you can easily hide any drive of windows without any software and protect your files.



Let’s start the trick.

Steps for hiding drives in windows

After doing this trick the specific partition is hidden from my computer and nobody knows there is one another partition there. So you can use that partition for your own personal and secret data.

Step.1: Open run prompt by clicking on start or press shortcut key to open it.( windows key + R).

Step.2: Type gpedit.msc and click on OK or Hit enter key, A group policy window will be appear.
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Step.3: On that windows go to the following path: User Configuration => Administrative Templates => Windows Components => Windows Explorer, see attached image.
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Step.4: Find the option “Hide these specified drives in My Compute” on the right side of the window.
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Step.5: Right click on this option and choose edit.

Step.6: In the new popup window select the enable option at top and then select the drive which you want to hide from my computer. finally click OK button.
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Step.7: Open My Computer and check you selected drive has been hidden for other peoples.



If you want to view your hidden drive, do the same steps and at last window select disable in the above image.

Thanks 🙂

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