Hide Your Partition If You Want...
My friend might need to use my computer to check his emails and also doing his work. I rarely allow people to use my computer or laptop because all my personal files and information is in there. Although he assured me that he won’t touch my stuff, but it’s always better to be safe than sorry. I don’t want him to be “accidentally” snooping around my files.
I partition my drive where the system drive (C:) is where I install Windows and my E drive is where I save all my files, documents and etc. All I need to do is to hide my E: drive from My Computer and that should do it because I know that my friend is not a computer geek. So here is how I easily hide E drive letter parttion from appearing in My Computer.
I found a few ways to do it. I’ll list them all out for your convenience.
Via Computer Management
1. Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > and run Computer Management.
2. Expand Computer Management (Local) > Storage > Disk Management.
3. Right click the E: drive partition and select Change Drive Letter and Paths..
4. Select E: drive, click Remove button and click OK.
To add back the drive letter, follow the above step 1 to 3, and click Add button. Make sure Assign the following drive letter is select and click OK.
Via Tweak UI
1. Download and install Tweak UI.
2. Run Tweak UI, go to My Computer > Drives.
3. Uncheck the drive that I want to hide. Click OK.
To restore the drive letter, simply run Tweak UI, go to My Computer > Drives and check the hidden drive letter.
Via EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition
1. Download and install EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition.
2. Right click the drive letter or partition, select Advanced > Hide. There’s a warning saying hiding this partition may cause drive letter to change. Click OK button.
3. Click Apply button at the bottom left and click Yes to apply the changes.
To show the drive letter, right click the drive letter or partition, select Advanced > Unhide. Click Apply at the bottom left.
The above method is not perfect but it can surely prevent the drive letter from appearing in My Computer while you can can rest easy knowing that the files on that drive or partition are less accessible to other users. If you see run Windows Disk Management, you’re able to see that there is a partition but without a drive letter. If you’re looking for a fool proof way, TrueCrypt might be the best solution.
