Is there a simple way to hide a hard drive?

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Imageman

Vista Ultimate 64bit

Is there a way to hide drives in Vista? I see aftermarket utilities, but I'd
rather discover a native Vista way to do it. Back in the 'old days', I used
a third party utility to password protect a drive and was never able to
access it again - IM
 
Imageman said:
Vista Ultimate 64bit

Is there a way to hide drives in Vista? I see aftermarket utilities,
but I'd rather discover a native Vista way to do it. Back in the 'old
days', I used a third party utility to password protect a drive and
was never able to access it again - IM
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take a look at TrueCrypt. I've been using it on XP and Vista machines
to store my password files. It's free and I've not had moment's problem
with it.

Dave
 
Cinmute said:
If you have sensitive or important data stored on a particular disk
drive that you don't want anyone to see, a great way to hide it is to

remove the drive letter assigned to a particular mounted volume. With
Windows , you can achieve this easily using nothing more

than the Command Prompt. Here's how:

- Click Start -> Run (This brings up the Run dialog box)
- Type cmd and press Enter (This brings up the Windows Command Prompt)
- Type diskpart in the command prompt and press Enter (This launches
the Diskpart utility within the Command Prompt window)
- Now type list volume (This displays a list of all mounted volumes on
your computer and their associated drive letters)

- Using the above picture as reference, if, for example, you would like
to hide drive E, type select volume 6
- Now type remove letter E (Note: This sometime requires a reboot)
Diskpart will now remove the drive letter. The drive will no longer be
available via Windows Explorer or My Computer.

Don't worry though, your data remains safe!

Now, should you want to unhide the drive and make it accessible again,
just repeat the above process. But instead of typing remove

letter E, type assign letter E


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You better hope that your wife does not visit this newsgroup otherwise you
have just told her where you hide your porn!

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