In daily life and work, there are various methods to ensure the safety of personal information on your computer. Concealing a hard drive partition is a technique to help safeguard important data. However, not everyone is familiar with this process. Here is an easy way to hide a hard drive without installing any additional software, ensuring data safety and easy retrieval of the hidden drive
If you only want to hide a folder without concealing the entire partition, check out the guide on hiding folders to learn how to conceal important folders on your computer
Guide on How to Hide Hard Drive Partition without Using Software
Initially, your computer has 3 hard drive partitions: C, D, and E. Now, let's perform the operation to hide the D drive partition.
Step 1: First, select Start/Run, type the command diskpart --> the
Step 2: Type list volume and press Enter. The list of partitions on the hard drive will be displayed.
Step 3: To conceal drive D, enter the command to select this drive: Select volume 4, press Enter
The command line displays “Volume 4 is the selected volume”, meaning we have correctly selected Volume 4 in the list. To hide drive D, type the command: Remove letter D, press Enter
The system will continue to display a message like this: “DiskPart successfully removed the driver letter or mount point”. Going back to the My Computer interface, you will observe that drive D has been hidden from the list. Rest assured, the operating system only temporarily hides this partition, and all data on it remains intact
Step 4: If you want to display drive D again, simply reverse the above process by using the command:
Assign letter D, press Enter
Notification: “DiskPart successfully assigned the driver letter or mount point” is displayed, drive D has reappeared in My Computer.
In the scope of this article, we've just performed the steps together to hide the hard drive partition of the computer without using any software. With this method, you can protect crucial data on your computer. Additionally, you can explore ways to lock folders and secure data using various software available on Mytour
Related to the computer hard drive, if you are using Windows 10, you can partition the Win 10 drive using the built-in Disk Management tool in your Windows. This is a simple way to partition the Win 10 drive without the need for many other specialized software. Best of luck!