Wednesday 6 November 2013

how to hide and unhide drive using cmd

Step 1. Open command Prompt, go to Start Menu > All Programs >Accessories > Command prompt Step 2. In the Command Prompt, type Diskpart and hit enter key. If UAC (User Account Control), dialog- box prompts than click Yes. Step 3. Then type List Volume and press enter, this will produce the list of all drives. Step 4. Now select the drive which you want to hide, you can either do this by typing Select Volume 1 (i.e. Volume Number) or by typing Select Volume C (i.e. Drive letter) Step 5. To hide a drive, type Remove Letter C . Here, C is the drive letter than you want to hide. You can use any drive letter you want. Step 6. That’s it. You are done! C drive is now hidden How to unhide hidden drive Step 1. Follow the procedure mentioned in step 1, 2, 3 and 4 . Step 2. To show the hidden drive type Assign Letter C and hit enter, now you can view C: drive in explorer. That’s it. This is one way of hiding and un-hiding drives from explorer, for rest two stay tuned.