You may already know “How to bypass windows folder security check to access into protected folders” . Today we have a different tutorial on a problem that every windows user should know it. When your computer have one or more users, then you may have some problems. Because you may have very secret or important data in your hard disk that means in a specific drive or partition. Wouldn’t it funny if you could hide or make invisible drive or partition for your user accounts without using any software? No one will be able to see your specified drive or partition. So let’s go through the tutorial.
Hide a Drive Without Software :
Step 1: Go to run ->type: gpedit.msc
gpedit.msc home window
You will see a window like above.
Step 2: Then select User Configuration and then expand Administrative Templates.
Step 3: Go through Windows Components -> Windows Explorer expand it.
Windows Components -> Windows Explorer
Step 4: In right side’s pane find out Hide These specified drives in My computer and double clicking this option thus a new window will appear.
Hide These specified drives in My computer
Step 5: Mark the “Enabled” option and below this check out Option where you can choose the specified drive or all drives to restrict.
Mark the “Enabled” option and below this check out Option
So it is done by you without any software.
Here you can see my PC’s screenshot:
Screenshot before hiding the drive
Screenshot after hiding the drive
(Some times viruses, root-kits, Trojans make your one or more drives invisible! So now you can make them visible through this process.)
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Author: Sharif Ahmed
Sharif Ahmed is a Tech Geek from Dhaka. He loves teaching peoples on computer problems. Follow Sharif on Twitter Follow @Sybozz
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Hi Sharif,
i read your article. thats amazing. i just want to confirm that if i hide my partiotion , will ite be possible for someone to actually find out the files by searching the whole computer. for example, if there are some files with .mp3 extension, and i have a program installed on that drive which is storing the files with that extension; and i want that no body can access those files, except the administrator or myself, is it possible.
No.
Nobody even admin of your computer won’t be able to find out a single pieces of information or file whatever he is trying to access. If you do not give the privileges to other users then they won’t access gpedit.msc and unable to find anything from that drive.
Nanna Munna Bacha, sorry for my late reply as i was busy.
how to hide eternal hard drive partition?
Hi imran,
Firstly, Sorry for this late reply.
Secondly, if your external hard drive is connected to Windows PC 🙂 you can follow this guide @ How to Hide or Unhide Hard Disk Partition in Windows 7/Vista/xp. Where this hide/unhide tricks is showed by the Computer Management.
Thirdly, hope it helps you out.
Lastly, Thanks!
Hi imran,
Firstly, Sorry for this late reply.
Secondly, if your external hard drive is connected to Windows PC 🙂 you can follow this guide @ How to Hide or Unhide Hard Disk Partition in Windows 7/Vista/xp. Where this hide/unhide tricks is shown by the Computer Management.
Thirdly, hope it helps you out.
Lastly, Thanks!
i have done it correctly but now i don’t know how to show the drives……plz help me please
Hi Farooq Hassan,
Good to see that you have done all correctly and the drive is hidden. Now whenever you want to un-hide that drive you need to follow the “Step#5” described here. There, mark the “Not Configured” radio button and apply/ok it.
If you want an easier guide on it, see Hide/Unhide any drive on Windows 7/8 from Computer Management.
Thanks!
helped me to enabled my hide partition
Update: Now you can hide any drive. Read this post to know how!
Is there any specific way to hide the partition only for guest account not for personal administrator account??