Make ur DRIVE disappear in Windows Vista

[dmudgal]

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.

[tweakwindows]

Useful info..But,AFAIK you can only hide A,B,C,D and E drives. Follow this tutorial to hide
all the drives
Hide Hard Disk Drives Using Windows Registry

[dmudgal]

u can select the option "Restrict All Drives" from the drop-down menu to hide all drives incuding cd/dvd drives....

[HappyAndyK]

Nice info
Can we / Should we hide the system drive?

[tweakwindows]

@dmudgal
I meant to hide any other specific drives like H and S Is this possible with Group Policy?
One more disadvantage of group policy is it's not visible or available Vista home basic and XP home basic versions..

[r.k]

it’s my Windows Blog Archive Hide and Restrict logical drive or partition in Windows

You can find some more info to hide/show and restrict too

[Hari Maurya]

Nice tutorial...Thnx guys