Last time we have seen that how to hide any file and folder from our computer. Now how about hiding whole Partition/Drive from my computer? Yes it is possible.
How it can be useful?
Now it is natural that people share one computer with their house mates and children at their home. So there is no safety of their important document and other work. With this trick person can put all his work on one drive/partition, and can hide the whole partition that nobody can see it. With this trick, nobody will able to know that computer having one more
drive in it. So we can make safe all our data with this trick. It can be quite handy and useful in many ways. Let’s see how to implement this trick. It is quite easy, just follow steps explained below.How to do it?
- -First open RUN by pressing window key + R.
- -Type gpedit.msc and enter, you will get window of Local Group Policy Editor
- -Now from that window select one by one option explained blow.
- -User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components >> Windows Explorer
- -Now select ‘Hide these specified drives in My Computer’ from the list. You will get the new window.
- -Now click on Enabled button and select the drive you want to hide.
- -Just click apply and it’s all done. You will not see that selected drive in my computer now.
- -To visible it again just open same window and click on disabled button and apply the settings. That hidden drive will be visible again.
Note :- If you don’t see your drive hide or visible after all settings, just restart your computer it will done all things for you.
So this is it. Hope this information will be helpful for you.