Hide Entire Drive from System

Till now you've been trying to hide all your files either using some softwares or using some of the tricks I mentioned in some of my previous posts. Now in this post I am going to tell you how to Hide Your Drives from being shown in my computer. This trick will work only in Microsoft Windows XP. It is a registry trick, so be careful. To do this follow the steps mentioned below:

Step 1: Click Start -> Run and type regedit and click on OK (Note: You need to have Administrative Priviledge).

Step 2: Expand in turn to

My Computer -> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> Explorer

Step 3: Right Click on Explorer and choose New and then DWORD value.

Step 4: Name the new value to NoDrives. Now double click on it to open the properties dialog box.

Step 5: Select Decimal for the Base.

Step 6: Now enter the values shown for the drives below:

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: 67108863, NO DRIVES: 0(Zero).


For example if you want to hide E drive, just enter the value in the Value Data to be 16 and click on OK.

Note: You won't be able to hide your Drive C if it is the drive where you have installed your XP.

Step 7: Now exit Registry Editor and Restart your system.

Step 8: In order to access your drive just enter the drive letter as d: in the address bar of My Computer and press enter.

Note with this you can also hide multiple drives. To do so continue to the next step...

Step 9: In order to hide two drives for example D: and F: add the corresponding values as
8+32 = 40.

Step 10: Now put that sum in the value field of the NoDrives dialog box.

Step 11: Exit Registry Editor and restart your system.

Note: Do not change any other settings other than the mentioned above else you may not be able to switch on your system.