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Wednesday, 1 May 2013

        Hide your, one of DRIVE w/o any Software


    To hide your drive you have to follow below steps:

1.    Go to Command Prompt by pressing WIN + R and type: cmd 

2.    Type following command
       
        diskpart       
    A window will pop up, Press: Yes
    A new Command Prompt window will pop up

3.    First to show the different drives or volumes on your computer
       Type
   
        DISKPART >  list volume
   
        It'll display various details about the drives. But we have interest only
                         in VOLUME ### and INFO  column.
        Check whether, which volume you want to hide is pagefile or not.
        If it's not, then u are good to go to hide it( goto step4), otherwise first
        we have to change it's attributes i.e. from pagefile to empty attribute.



       ( Changing pagefile of drive )

3.a.  Go to Run ( WIN + R ) and type: sysdm.cpl
        A window will pop up Press: Yes
   
  b.   On System Properties window , Go to
 
        Advanced -> Performance Settings -> Advanced -> Change
       
        Select the drive which u want to hide, and  No paging file radio button
        Click on SET and RESTART ur computer. After Restart follow first 2 steps again.






 4.    Write the following commands

        DISKPART >  list volume
                  
                   Now drive will not be pagefile, which we wanna hide
                  
        DISKPART >  select volume volume_number
       
                    where volume_number is number of the drive which u wanna hide
       
        DISKPART >  remove letter V       
                    where V is ur volume or drive letter

5.    Now all done, you may or may not have to restart ur computer to see the changes u made.
   
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