Hide and lock any drive(s) using regedit

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You can hide any of drive(s) by just adding two keys in windows registry
goto start>run

Type regedit and press enter. This will bring you to the registry editor. To hide any drive you have to follow these 2 steps

STEP1: Hidding Drive
goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer now create a new DWORD value No Drives and set its value as

2^(Alpha Number of Drive Letter-1)
where Alpha number are simple counting of alphabets from A to Z as 1 - 26

for example: to hide C drive
Alpha number of C is 3 so 2^(3-1) = 4 (decimal value)

If you want to hide more than one drive than calculate the value of each drive as explained and then set sum of those numbers as value

Step2: Prevent Access to the drive
Now as we have make our drive invisbble but it is still accesible so to lock the drive we will create another DWORD value at

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
create a new DWORD value NoViewOnDrive and set its value same as you have calculated for hidding the drive(s)

Now your drive is locked. If you want to unlock and unhidden the drive then just delete these two keys and your drive is again accessible. You can also create two .reg files one for hidding and locking and another one for unlocking and unhidding

Comments

  1. SKJuly 3, 2011 at 10:51 PM

    Another way to hide windows drives is using computer management -> disk management. Select the drive, right click and choose "change drive letter and path". Just click on remove and the drive letter will be gone and the drive will disappear from your browser.
    You can bring it back by assigning a drive letter again to that drive.

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