How to Hide or Unhide Hard Disk Partition in Windows 7/Vista/xp

Hiding a partition or volume from my
computer or explorer is preventing that partition
from displaying, but it doesn't mean erasing any
data or deleting the volume. Windows OS Disk
management system allows hiding drives except
the System drive where the OS is installed and
the System reserved volume. So, anyone who
has administrative privilege or the administrator
of the Windows machine can do this task. And
the basic trick is, without any drive letter (Ex: C:,
D:, E: etc.) Windows OS doesn't recognize any
drive or partition and here we are going to
remove that letter temporally.
To do this task you need administrator privilege.
So, why don't you activate the administrator
account and use it.
How to hide a drive:
1. Click right mouse on the computer and
select Manage. Select the disk management
under storage from the left pane. Or, you can
also get the Disk management typing
diskmgmt.msc in the run and pressing enter.
2. From there click right-mouse on which
drive you want to hide and select Change Drive
Letters and Paths.
3. Now select remove. Don’t worry! This
action just removes the drive letter.
4. Pressing on the Remove a warning
message will be shown and accept it by clicking
on yes. It’s just telling you that all programs
installed on that drive won’t work or this drive is
opened by another program.
It’s done! Your selected drive is hidden now.
The hidden drive won’t be appearing to the
administrator of the OS unless it is unbidden.
How to unhide the drive:
1. Open the Disk Management as shown
above.
2. Right mouse click on the drive which is
hidden/removed. Tips : the hidden drive doesn’t
contain any drive letter.
3. Choose the Change Drive Letters and Paths
and select Add to add drive letter or path to the
hidden drive.
4. At last choose a drive letter to assign the
drive/partition and press on OK. Wow! The
hidden partition is displayed in an explorer or my
computer.
That's it! No data is lost or damage. Even the
installed files are working again without any
errors. From now you shouldn't need any extra
software to hide or unhide your PC's drives. And
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