How to Hide Drives with CMD

Today we are here with the method for How to Hide Drives with CMD. Today almost every second person in this world is using computer. And almost all of them deals with the data of it, that is everyone is having its personal or sensitive data like pictures, videos , audios and documents in their computer. All these thing we store in our hard drive partitions. But the major issue in windows is privacy that is you can easily access someone’s drive. So you need some security to overcome this or you can hide you internal hard drive partition. yes it is possible. you can do this own by just simple and easy methods with a cmd trick. Just follow the below post to proceed.

Hide Drives with CMD

The method is very simple for this. You just need is command prompt and little bit commands that i have listed in this pot. And by this you can ensure your privacy by protecting your drive by any unauthorized access to it by hiding it. And you can hide and unhide these drive anytime you want to access it according to your convince. Just follow the below steps to proceed.

Learn How To Hide Drives with CMD :-

Below are the steps to hide a hard drive partition:-

1. First of all open MyComputer and note down the name of drive which you want to hide. Let it be D drive.
2. Now click on start of windows and type “cmd” there.
3. Now right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.

   

   Run as admin

4. Now command prompt window will get displayed in your window screen.
5. Type “Diskpart” there and press enter.
6. Now click on yes on the popup that appears.
7. Now a new window of command prompt will get appear.
8. Type list volume there and then see all your volume list and find the no. of the drive which you want to hide. Let it be 1.
9. Type Select Volume 1 and press enter.
10. Now type Remove Letter D and press enter.
11. Thats it you are done, now explore your computer and you will see the selected drive will not be in the drive list.

    

    Hiding a drive

Steps To Unhide Drive With Cmd

Below are the steps to unhide a hard drive partition:-

1. Simply Repeat the above till 9th step.
2. Now type assign letter D and then press enter.

   

   Unhiding drive

3. Thats it you are done. Now you will see the drive will get unhide and will be displayed in rest of drives list.

So above is all about How to Hide Drives with CMD. By this simple and easy method you can easily hide/unhide your drive containing your personal data and information. Also there is no need of any third party software to perform this and this will completelyensure the privacy of your data and can check any unauthorized access to it. Hope you like this cool post. Don’t forget to share this post with your friends and leave a comment below if you having any trouble at any step in the method discussed above.