This tutorial illustrates how to hide and show your computer drives from Windows XP. You can hide or show as you want both drives in your computer and drives in the computer network. This way can be safe for data in your computer and prevent others from accessing to your drives that may contain important information. This example I will hide drive D and you can apply this method to another drive you want, just change a value that I will explain “how to” in detail. Let you hide drives now.
- Access to the Registry Editor program, running regedit.
- Find the path like below,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer
- Right click on the Explorer folder and select New > DWORD Value.
- Name the registry NoDrives.
- Double click on NoDrives which is in the right page.
- In the DWORD Value window, select Decimal.
- In this case I want to hide drive D, so I must fill 8 in Value data. The number you filled varies with drive you want it to be hidden. If you want to hide the other drives, you must put the drive-related number like below,
A=1, B=2, C=4, D=8, E=16, F=32, G=64, H=128, I=256, J=512, K=1024, L=2048, M=4096, N=8192, O=16384, P=32768, Q=65536, R=131072, S=262144, T=524288, U=1048576, V=2097152, W=4194304, X=8388608, Y=16777216, Z=33554432, All drive=67108863
For example, I can hide drive J only if I put the number 512 under selecting Decimal. What to do in case I prefer to hide more than one drive ? That is easy just plus the numbers. To illustrate, I want to hide drive C and E so I put the result number of 4 plus 16 that is 20.
- Click OK button and close the Registry Editor program.
- Log off and Log on your computer. Finish !
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Very nice tutorials. I want to hide all drive that has the secret information.
Thank you.
How to unhide that specific Drives ?
Easiest way to unhide any drive is not to provide the value data, leave it empty. Or you need to delete the the DWORD Value named NoDrives. All done.
Yea, ITs very usefull for me,i enjoy this tricks
That works fine, but the hidden drive still appears in Total Commander or other file manager …
wow!that was grrreat!!!hahaha
i like that…thanks!
wow! what is a good trick and using the Resistry effects.
very very thanks
excellent . thanks for helping me and others . its very effective.thanks
Very handy indeed!
Faster said in July 8th, 2008 at 6:39 am
That works fine, but the hidden drive still appears in Total Commander or other file manager …
Yeah, hence the fact that you are editing the registry entry for explorer
just to think, there are 67108864 possible different combinations for hiding drives!
this is a good tricks for hiding your personal things…. thanks
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Absid
TweakUI also allows easy hiding of drives without using regedit. TweakUI may be forgotten in this day and age, but it’s a very useful tool.
Why go to the registry and do this just right click on my computer and go to manage. Once there go to disk management and find the disk you want to hide and right click it and choose change drive letter then remove the letter.
Great thanks
Thank you, Bill. It’s easier and more comfortable as you told.
excellent. What a image
thanks
hello how can i hide my drive?
hello how to hide a drives from my computer….
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