Hide drives in Windows XP (Logical partitions)

This is how you can hide one or more of your drives (logical partitions)
Windows XP provides (Not officialy) a utility by which u can hide one or more drives .

1. Go to Start > run > type diskpart
a dos window will appear with following discription.
DISKPART>

2. Then type list volume

You see something similar to this . .

Volume### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
-------------- ---- ------ --- ----- ---- ------- -----

Volume 0 F DC-ROM
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 7000MB Healthy
Volume 2 D soft NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy
Volume 3 E Docs NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy


3.if u wanna hide drive E then type

select volume 3

then this message appears { Volume 3 is the selected volume**

4.now type

remove letter E

now a message appear { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter **

Sometimes it require a reboot.

Logic: Diskpart will remove the letter .Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unknown volume.

Note: Your data will remain safe .
To get back the Drive, repeat the process, but in 4th step above, replace

remove

by

assign

ie., type

assign letter E

Caution: Double check the steps before you try, or else it may give fatal results.


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