Do you have data on a partition or hard drive that you don’t want tampered with or easily accessible to other users? Well, you can hide any drive/partition in Windows XP. That means that they won’t show up in Explorer or My Computer. How to access the drive after hiding is shown at the post.
WARNING: If u don't have knowledge about "Registry", Please follow the given steps only
Be sure to back up the Registry before proceeding(How to backup registry)
The values for each drive are as follows:
1 – A I Q Y
2 – B J R Z
4 – C K S
8 – D L T
16 – E M U
32 – F N V
64 – G O W
80 – H P X
If you want access to that drive from your user account you should create a desktop shortcut before proceeding. Once hidden, you can still access by typing the drive letter and a colon in Start/Run—for example, “D:” will bring up a folder of the contents on your D drive.
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WARNING: If u don't have knowledge about "Registry", Please follow the given steps only
Be sure to back up the Registry before proceeding(How to backup registry)
- Open the Registry Editor by going to Start/Run and typing in “regedit” (without the quotes).
- Find your way to…
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mcft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies.
- Click on “Explorer”.
- Double-click the “NoDrives” key in the right column. If you don’t find a “NoDrives” registry key, just right-click in the right pane and choose “New/DWORD Value” then name the key “NoDrives”.(Enter the name as it is ,as it is case sensitive.)
- You’ll see a value like “0000 00 00 00 00″. This is where the fun starts. The four sets of double zeros (after the “0000″) are where you’ll enter the values for the drive/partitions.
- Now, stay with me on this—it’s not as complicated as it sounds:
The values for each drive are as follows:
1 – A I Q Y
2 – B J R Z
4 – C K S
8 – D L T
16 – E M U
32 – F N V
64 – G O W
80 – H P X
- So, let’s say you want to hide drive D. In the first column you would put “08″. For drive K you would put “04″ in the second column.
- But what if you want to hide more than one drive in a column? Simply add the values together: D+E = 8+16 = 24. So in the first column you would put “24″.
If you want access to that drive from your user account you should create a desktop shortcut before proceeding. Once hidden, you can still access by typing the drive letter and a colon in Start/Run—for example, “D:” will bring up a folder of the contents on your D drive.
If u still find any problem post a comment
it works. . .i fooled ma friend
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