Hide Any Drive on Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows Vista Easily without Any Software

Hiding any drive in Windows 7 / Windows Vista machine is very easy and simple. Follow the following steps to hide any drive on Microsoft Windows 7 / Windows Vista without any software:

Step 1

• Click on Start and then select Run to open the run window. Alternately, you can press Windows key and R key together.
• Type diskpart in the Run window and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Step 2

After step 2, you will in Diskpart program. Now type list volume and press Enter key of your keyboard.
Now, you will see all the partition lists of your hard disk.

Step 3

Select the drive that you want to hide. Just select that partition's volume number and type the command select volume [Volume_No] to select that partition and hit Enter key to execute that command.

Note: Volume_No is the number of that partition which you will want to hide.
For example, we want to hide volume 4, which drive letter is E. So, to select that partition, we have to write the following command and hit Enter key:
select volume 4

Step 4

Now, type the following command:
remove letter E
And then press Enter key of your keyboard.

By following the above steps, you can easily hide any partition from your computer. Sometimes, after hiding your partition you may need to restart your computer. If you don't see the effect, then restart your computer and after restart you will see the desired partition is no longer in public i.e. it's a hidden partition now.

Steps to Unlock the Hidden Drive in Windows 7 / Vista

In the previous steps, I tell you how to hide any drive on Windows 7 / Vista easily without using any software. Hope, you successfully hide your desired drive.
Now, I want to discuss the unlocking methods of those hidden drive when you wish to unlock that hidden drive.
To show your hidden drive again, at first follow the steps 1 and 2 and then type the following command:
assign letter = E
and hit Enter key of your keyboard.

Final Words

You need to hide any drive when you don't want to public your files, documents, photos, videos etc. This can be done easily without using any software in your Microsoft Windows 7 / Windows Vista computer. Hope, you are successful hiding any partition or drive from your computer in Windows 7 / Windows Vistaby following the methods of this hubpage. Moreover, you can unlock those hide drive when you require those. Really, it helps you enough security to protect your personal files, data, documents, photos, videos etc. everything and also saves your money not to buy any software to hide your desired documents and files.