The tutorial is about how to hide a local drive without any 3rd party software. There are lots of free and payable software's available to hide local drive, but I'm not going to talk about hide a local drive using a software. In this tutorial I'll show you an easiest way to hide local drive without using software. This will save your both money and time.



I am covering command prompt way of doing it. So lets see how to do.

Hide drive:
1. Click on Start -> Run
2. In Run box type cmd and hit Enter. Now Command Prompt window will appear.
3. Type diskpart and hit Enter.
4. Then type list volume and hit Enter.
5. Then type the Drive Letter which you want to hide i.e. E. Type select volume E and hit Enter.
6. After that, type remove letter E and hit an Enter.



That's all, you have done. Now restart your computer once. When you start your PC again, you want be able to see the particular drive in My Computer.

Get back hidden drive:
1. Do the procedure which i have mentioned in step 1,2,3,4 and 5 again.
2. Type assign letter E and hit Enter.




That's all !! You have got back the hidden local drive. Once again restart your PC, now you will be able to see hidden local drive in My Computer.

Note: Your PC doesn't lost any data by doing this trick .