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 !