Guest Kriss981 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Ever wish you could make one of your computer's drives invisible to anyone snooping around on your system? Well, happy days are here my friend! Whether you have sensitive docs, pictures, or any other private data, this is one of the easiest ways to keep them safe. Keep in mind that you'll still be able to access your hidden drives; you just won't see that they exist in Windows Explorer or the My Computer folder. Back up your registry before you start!1. Open Regedit.2. Navigate to one of these strings: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer - this only changes the settings for the current logged in userHKEY_LOCALMACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer - this changes the settings for all users on the machine. You may have to create the key folder "Explorer" manually.3. In the Explorer key folder, create a new DWORD value by right-clicking Explorer, then choosing New DWORD value. Name the value "NoDrives" (without the quotes). This value defines local and network drive visibility for each logical drive on the computer. All drives will be visible as long as this value's data is set to 0.4. Following the table below, enter the decimal number corresponding to the drive(s) you want to hide as NoDrives value data. When you right-click on NoDrives and choose Modify, make sure you select Decimal base, not Hexadecimal.Drive Number to hideA: 1B: 2C: 4D: 8E: 16F: 32G: 64H: 128I: 256J: 512K: 1024L: 2048M: 4096N: 8192O: 16384P: 32768Q: 65536R: 131072S: 262144T: 524288U: 1048576V: 2097152W: 4194304X: 8388608Y: 16777216Z: 33554432All drives 67108863If you want to hide more than one drive, you simply add the drive amounts together for a combined total.For example, to hide the D:/ and T:/ drives, add the decimal value for the D:/ drive to the decimal value to the T:/ drive.8 (D) + 524288 (T) = 524296To disable all of your visible drives, set the value to 67108863.You must reboot your PC to see your changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arie Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Please note that this will only hide specific drive letters, it does not offer any kind of security, meaning that this is not safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Moved to Tweaks forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eidenk Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Please note that this will only hide specific drive letters, it does not offer any kind of security, meaning that this is not safe.Yeah and you can do it with TweakUI on 98SE/ME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesurfer Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 this is pretty cool.is there something similar for hiding folders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eidenk Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 this is pretty cool.is there something similar for hiding folders?Yeah, a rootkit could be doing that I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadwhiskers Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 A simple workaround is to create a shortcut right on the desktop with the path asC:\or whatever drive you want to go to. XP has no security.You can use search to get to things too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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