Hide your Drives !?
1- run regedit from start menu.
2- Go to following Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version \ Policies\Explorer
3- Create new "DWORD" and name it "NoDrivers"
4- To hide your drive type one or all below decimal digits:
A:1 , B:2 , c:4 , D:8 , E:16 , F:32 and ...........
5- To hide all drives set following decimal digit 67108863

restart your pc

Interesting !
but does it have any use ?

if you dont want the hard disk, them maybe remove it and use with a machine that could use the extra space ?

i suppose you could use this eg. on a child's computer, you dont want them accessing the system files. create a c: partition and a d: partition and put the programs on the c: partition then hide it.

Standard Users shouldnt Have Write Access to the System files anyways.
If windows ever upgraded to the reiserfs file system support, this feature could be sued to stop virii running in windows and damaging my linux drive.. but intill then.....

Actually, you could create multiple user accounts and download Windows SteadyState. Then you can hide drives in there, and control many things for each user account.

It is much easier than editing the registry.

I've tried to follow your instructions to hide my "H" Driver, but nothing happend at all.
i did step 1.run regedit from start menu.
& i did step 2.Go to following Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version \ Policies\Explorer
& also step 3.Create new "DWORD" and name it "NoDrivers" Successfuly, & in the fourth step i put the decimal 128 & restarted my pc but nothing happened. So what should i do to correct this situation.

Yeah...that's what I'm thinking. Just use ACLs to prevent children's accounts from writing to the drive, or add an explicit deny to their account and let it recurse on any drive you don't want them looking at. It will give them this nice access denied message to, so they understand that it's not their computer to hose ^^

This sounds a lot like security through obscurity. Basically if you want to “hide” the drive you should take real steps to protect the data. If someone really wants to know about your drives they are not going to use Windows Explorer but some more sophisticated forensics tool. This may be a good parlor trick but I would not trust it beyond that.

thanks!!

great tip

how do you hide a partition for recovery, it must stay on the pc after reinstallation of windows. also, this hide your drives is great! i hide mapped network drives by a button click since i have a file on my desktop called UnMap and ReMap.reg

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