How to Hide Hard Drive on Your PC(Computer)?

Type : Tips and Trick

Level : Easy

O.S : tested using Windows XP SP3

Have you ever imagine when you open your computer and you didn't find your drives? It should be a little weird, but maybe someone was playing with you when you're not on your computer .

In this tips and trick we will learn “How to Hide Hard Drive on your Computer”?. Usually this tips and trick used for more entertainment like make a prank with your friends or colleagues, but more than that it also quite useful for security purposes.

Step by Step :

Here is the first state of my computer before the drive C hidden :

1. Open Run (how to open Run) and type regedit, and then click OK or press ENTER.

2. After registry window opened, now go to :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3. Now right click in right side pane and create DWORD Value.

4. Name the new registry value as "NoDrives".

5. Double click on "NoDrives" to enter a Decimal value. This value depends on the drives you wish to hide, and is created by adding the numbers for each drive you wish to hide from the list below. Click OK once you have entered this number.

Drive Letter	Value
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 Drives	67108863

6. For example, to hide drive C you would enter a decimal value of 4. To hide both drives C and D, you would enter a decimal value of 12 (4 + 8).

7. After changes, you need to restart your computer to make it work.. Here is the result:

To unhide, just delete the NoDrives in your registry and restart your computer.

Hope it's useful

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6 Responsesto “How to Hide Hard Drive on Your PC(Computer)?”

1. amine says:

   Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 2:08 am

   that’s fun trick I will use it to my friends

   Reply
2. puppet says:

   Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 4:44 pm

   how to do it on windows 7?

   Reply
   • v4L says:

     Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 3:20 pm

     #puppet
     It should be work also on windows 7

     Reply
3. atkol29 says:

   Friday, October 19, 2012 at 1:12 am

   Removing the drive letter in Computer Management (compmgmt.msc) also hides the drive.

   Reply
4. jayaram says:

   Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 11:06 am

   bro
   u can use my code

   file1.bat
   diskpart /s c:\disk\en.txt
   exit
   file2.bat
   diskpart /s c:\disk\rm.txt
   exit
   en.txt
   select volume 2
   remove
   select volume 3
   remove
   select volume 4
   remove
   select volume 5
   remove
   select volume 6
   remove

   rm.txt

   select volume 2
   assign letter d
   select volume 3
   assign letter e
   select volume 4
   assign letter f
   select volume 5
   assign letter g
   select volume 6
   assign letter h

   by dis u can overcome hiding drives in any operating system

   bro plz notify my name”jayaram” at the end of the post if u post

   Reply
   • v4L says:

     Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 10:44 am

     #jayaram
     thanks for your info…btw if you interested, you also can write a tutorial here (http://www.hacking-tutorial.com/guest-post-topic-writer/)

     Reply