Make your Drive disappear in Windows Vista

[Dishant]

Today I'm going to share a simple tutorial with you all. It will tell you how you can hide a Drive in Windows Vista. This will be helpful to you in case u want to hide your personal stuff from others, just put all that stuff in a drive and make it disappear .There may exist some third-party tools but this tutorial is as simple as any other thing could be.

Here's how u can do this>>>



Click on Start button, type gpedit.msc in the search box and press Enter
Click on Continue to bypass the UAC prompt.
In the left pane, navigate to User Configuration>> Administrative Templates>> Windows Components>>Windows Explorer.
In the right pane of the window double-click on Hide these specified drives in My Computer
In the dialog box that appears click on Enabled.
Select the drives you wish to hide from the drop-down menu given just below in the same dialog box
Click on Apply and OK and then close the Local Group Policy Editor.
To check if it worked or not you can open up My Computer and see if the drive that you selected to hide is there or not.

[Bandu]

Hi Dishant,

Nice tutorial. You may want to change the light blue font color to something darker though. Its difficult to read. I actually have to highlight the text to read it.

I don't have Vista (yet). Will try this trick later. Can you tell me if the drive is just 'visibly' hidden or totally unavailable - like as good as it has been disconnected from the system.

- Bandu.

[Krazy Bluez]

Very old trick, and it works same for XP, 2000 and Server 2003 too ! This was a trick given in the Digit's Take a crack section years ago, but if you have found out all by yourself then congrats buddy !