Hello friends, today we are going to discuss about hiding a
drive from computer.
Why we have
to do this?
In our home all our friends and family members can use our
computer. So its not a safe environment for your personal files. So we have to
hide that from them. After doing this trick the specified 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 only.
How to do
this?
Step 1: Open run
prompt ( windows key + R)
Step 2: Type gpedit.msc
and hit enter, a group policy window will appear.
Step 3: From that
window just open the following path:
User Configuration ==> Administrative
Templates
==> Windows Components
==> Windows Explorer
refer the image
(select windows
explorer root folder and see the list in the right site)
Step 4: From that
list double click “Hide these specified drives in My Computer” and then you will get a new window.
Step 5: In that window select the enable option at top and then select
the drive which you have to hide from others. And then click apply and then ok.
Now go to My Computer and check that the selected drive is hidden.
Again to view that drive do the same steps and at last select disable in the above picture.
(NOTE: If the drive still not hidden means just restart your computer and
check that will be hide)