>Hide drives in Windows XP (Logical partitions)
>This is how you can hide one or more of your drives (logical partitions)
Windows XP provides (Not officialy) a utility by which u can hide one or more drives .
1. Go to Start > run > type diskpart
a dos window will appear with following discription.
DISKPART>
2. Then type list volume
You see something similar to this . .
Volume### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
————– —- —— — —– —- ——- —–
Volume 0 F DC-ROM
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 7000MB Healthy
Volume 2 D soft NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy
Volume 3 E Docs NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy
3.if u wanna hide drive E then type
select volume 3 |
then this message appears { Volume 3 is the selected volume**
4.now type
remove letter E |
now a message appear { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter **
Sometimes it require a reboot.
Logic: Diskpart will remove the letter .Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unknown volume.
Note: Your data will remain safe .
To get back the Drive, repeat the process, but in 4th step above, replace
remove |
by
assign |
ie., type
assign letter E |
Caution: Double check the steps before you try, or else it may give fatal results.
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