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Warning

This tutorial involve tampering with windows registry, you should be extremely careful while playing with these stuffs.



To open regisrtry editor follow the given steps.

* To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.

* Click Start button and type regedit in run option then press Enter for next.

Here is the actual tweaking process.

* In registry editor locate :

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

* Here in right side panel, check if already a DWORD with name NoDrives (Case Sensitive) is present if not then create one.

* Now if you want to hide system drives {Use with Care} then modify value data for the drives below to the one which is on front of them.

* Drive Number to hide

A: 1
B: 2
C: 4
D: 8
E: 16
F: 32
G: 64
H: 128
I: 256
J: 512
K: 1024
L: 2048
M: 4096
N: 8192
O: 16384
P: 32768
Q: 65536
R: 131072
S: 262144
T: 524288
U: 1048576
V: 2097152
W: 4194304
X: 8388608
Y: 16777216
Z: 33554432

All drives 67108863

* If you want to hide more than one drive, you simply add the drive amounts together for a combined total.

* For example, to hide the D:/ and T:/ drives, add the decimal value for the D:/ drive to the decimal value to the T:/ drive.

8 (D) + 524288 (T) = 524296

* To disable all of your visible drives, set the value to 67108863.

* Now close the registry editor and restart your computer to see the changes changes.

If you want to unhide drives then simply change the value of data box to "0" or delete the DWORD item.

To also restrict the access to the drive completely please refer This

Close the registry editor and restart your computer to see the changes.

Member "solitaryyonker",
Welcome On GYAN PITARA Forums.

Thanks for a nice tutorial dude keep it up.

Thanks for this, but how can i hide two or more drives.

Member "Piyush",
Welcome On GYAN PITARA Forums.

Thanks for the request. I have updated the article with the information to how to hide more than one drives by editing windows registry. Take a look at the first post by member "solitaryyonker" and enjoy.

If you encounter any other problem then do not hesitate to post it here.

That's a good trick my dear, but i think it only hides (u can go inside through run), what if u also want to restrict drive ?