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hide any partition of your hard disk

Posted in Labels: pc tips, windows xp | at 2:05 AM

If you want to hide any partition of your hard disk just follow these simple steps.
1. Goto Start > Run and type diskpart
A DOS window will appear with following description
DISKPART>
2. Then type list volume
All partitions will be listed, there will be also a volume number for each partitions
3. Suppose you want to hide drive E:, type select volume 3 (Here 3 is the volume number of E:, in your pc it may vary). A message will now appear in the window saing "Volume 3 is the selected volume".
4. Now type remove letter E . You may have to reboot the computer. Diskpart will remove the letter. Since Windows XP doesn't have the capability to identify the unknown volume, it won't display or show results from it. To access the content of the hidden drive, repeat the process, but in the foruth step, replace remove to assign, ie., assign letter E.
if the above process does'nt assign a letter
then go to control panel->administrative tools->computer management->disk management right-click on on the drive which u want to assign letter and click assign letter.