Hiding Hard Disk Drives without any software.

Hiding Hard Disk Drives without any software.

Sometimes you may want to hide your hard drives so that no one can access your personal data. In this post I will tell you how to hide the hard disk drives without any software by just following some simple steps.

Just follow these easy steps to hide the drives .

Step 1:- First type gpedit.msc on run and press enter.

Step 2:- Go to second option in User Configuration and expand "AdministrativeTemplates".....then Expand "Windows Components".....then Click On "Windows Explorer"

Step 3:- After Clicking on Windows Explorer check on your right there is an option "Hide These Specified drives in My Computer"

Step 4:- Open It and Select Enable, by default it is in "not Configured" Mode.

Step 5:- Choose the Drive You want to hide under "Pick one of the following combinations"....If you want to hide all just choose "Restrict all drives"....Then click Apply then Ok.

** After Ok your Selected hard drives will be hidden.

To Unhide Your Hidden Drives:-

Do same upto 3rd Step and select "Do not restrict Drives" then apply and check the "not Configure" click Ok

And You are done....!! Enjoy ...!!

NOTE: gpedit.msc may not work in windows 8.

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Written by Ashish Gahlawat

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