Some times you want to keep your stuff ,of drive/partition in your computer ,hidden because of many reasons.we are not here to talk about the reasons rather we have a simple solution for those of you who wants to Hide their drives/partition in Windows XP.Windows XP provides an in-built tool called Diskpart, which can be used for managing the drives in Windows XP.Just Follow these below mentioned simple step for hiding your drives/partition for Windows XP.
1. Go to Run from the Start menu and type Diskpart .
2. Now type ‘list volume’.
This command will list out all the drives of your computer with their label,size letter etc
3.Now lets say you want to hide volume 2 then you should type ‘Select volume 2′ i.e select volume ‘drive number’.
this command will select the volume you want to hide,remember the drive not hidden till yet.
4.Now lets say for e.g for hiding the volume 2,you have to type this command ‘Remove letter D’ the letter D is the letter assigned to volume 2,the letter assigned are different for different volumes.
Note-Your drive is hidden now it may take a restart to be in effect.The drive can be retrieve back easily just by following step 1 to 3 and instead of step 4 follow step 5.
5.To unhide your drive follow step 1 to 3 and then step 5..just type ‘assign letter D’,here letter D is just an example.
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