Want to hide drives with sensitive material on them from prying eyes? You can prevent any or all disk drives from being displayed in My Computer and Explorer.
It takes some Registry tweaks, which can be tricky. Check instructions at help and support option in your system
For this go to help and support --> type Registry editor and press enter that will displays the matter for further assistance click related topics at the end... This will be more than enough to understand Registry editing....
In the Registry navigate to HKEY__USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. Right-click on Explorer and choose New and DWORD value. In the pane on the right, rename the new value NoDrives and double-click on it to open the Edit DWORD Value box. Click the Decimal option to select it, instead of the Hexadecimal option.
Now for the complicated part. To hide a drive or drives, a number that corresponds to the drive(s) must be entered. Enter the value listed below for the drive. If multiple drives are to be hidden, add the numbers for those drives together. For example, hiding drives D and E requires a value of 24, because you are adding the value for D (8) to the value for E (16), which equals 24.
A: 1
N: 8192
B: 2
O: 16384
C: 4
P: 32768
D: 8
Q: 65536
E: 16
R: 131072
F: 32
S: 262144
G: 64
T: 524288
H: 128
U: 1048576
I: 256
V: 2097152
J: 512
W: 4194304
K: 1024
X: 8388608
L: 2048
Y: 16777216
M: 4096
Z: 33554432
All: 67108863
The boot disk, usually the C drive, tends to show up in Explorer even if you hide it in My Computer. To bring back hidden disks, just change the value of NoDrives to 0 or delete the value altogether.
It takes some Registry tweaks, which can be tricky. Check instructions at help and support option in your system
For this go to help and support --> type Registry editor and press enter that will displays the matter for further assistance click related topics at the end... This will be more than enough to understand Registry editing....
In the Registry navigate to HKEY__USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. Right-click on Explorer and choose New and DWORD value. In the pane on the right, rename the new value NoDrives and double-click on it to open the Edit DWORD Value box. Click the Decimal option to select it, instead of the Hexadecimal option.
Now for the complicated part. To hide a drive or drives, a number that corresponds to the drive(s) must be entered. Enter the value listed below for the drive. If multiple drives are to be hidden, add the numbers for those drives together. For example, hiding drives D and E requires a value of 24, because you are adding the value for D (8) to the value for E (16), which equals 24.
A: 1
N: 8192
B: 2
O: 16384
C: 4
P: 32768
D: 8
Q: 65536
E: 16
R: 131072
F: 32
S: 262144
G: 64
T: 524288
H: 128
U: 1048576
I: 256
V: 2097152
J: 512
W: 4194304
K: 1024
X: 8388608
L: 2048
Y: 16777216
M: 4096
Z: 33554432
All: 67108863
The boot disk, usually the C drive, tends to show up in Explorer even if you hide it in My Computer. To bring back hidden disks, just change the value of NoDrives to 0 or delete the value altogether.
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