Saturday 23 July 2016

How to Hide your Drive in Windows by using CMD

Windows Command Prompt is a very Powerful tool to perform some tasks. It is usually used to do a task without using a third-party tool. Today in this post we are going to share another interesting topic on Comand Prompt. Today we are learning how to hide any drive in Windows by using CMD. You can also Hide drive by using a free tool such as DriveHide, but we are not using any third party software to do it same.

How to Hide any Drive in Windows by using Command Prompt?

To know how to hide any drive then, follow the steps given below.

Step 1: Type CMD in search area Box or in Run Dialog Box. Open CMD as run as Administrator.

Step 2: Type Diskpart in the CMD and Hit enter key, then Click YES if you are prompted with User Account Control (UAC) Dialog-box.

Step 3: After that, you will be prompted with new Command Prompt. Type List Volume and hit the enter key, and all the drives will be listed below.

Step 4: Now, Select the drive that you want to hide. Type Select Volume E or Select Volume 3 and hit the Enter Key (here, E is the Drive Letter, and 3 is the Volume Number).

Step 5: Now to Hiding a Drive, type Remove Letter E (Here E is the drive letter that you want to Hide).

Your Drive is Hide Now; you can close the CMD by typing exit command. Now check the drive on your PC.

Before Hiding

After Hiding

How to display the Hidden Drive by using CMD?

To know how to show Hidden Drive then, follow the steps given below.

Step 1: Type CMD in search area Box or in Run Dialog Box. Open CMD as run as Administrator.

Step 2: Type Diskpart in the CMD and Hit enter key, then Click YES if you are prompted with User Account Control (UAC) Dialog-box.

Step 3: After that, you will be prompted with new Command Prompt. Type List Volume and hit the enter key, and all the drives will be listed below.

Step 4: Now, Select the drive that you want to display. Type Select Volume E or Select Volume 3 and hit the Enter Key (here, E is the Drive Letter, and 3 is the Volume Number).

Step 5: Type Assign Letter E and hit the Enter Key to display the Drive.