Tips and Tricks

How to hide drive on your PC
(Tested on Windows XP, ME)

To hide disk drive from explorer we need to edit a little bit Windows registry, ok let start the show:

1. Click START, then choose RUN and type "regedit" (without quotation) on it, click Ok
   
2. On the REGISTRY EDITOR windows, go to this address :
   
   
   

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

   
   
   
   
3. Open Explorer folder, right click on empty area on the right panel, choose NEW DWORD Value and then name it as "NoDrive" (without quotation).
4. Double click on the "NoDrive" and change the data value according to which drive you want to hide, here's the drive identity number :
5. Drive A = 1 Drive H = 128 ; To hide all of drive = 67108863
   Drive B = 2 Drive I = 256
   Drive C = 4 Drive J = 512
   Drive D = 8 Drive K = 1024
   Drive E = 16 Drive L = 2048
   Drive F = 32 Drive M = 4096
   Drive G = 64 Drive N = 8192
6. Close the REGISTRY EDITOR windows and restart the PC
7. After PC restarted, check your drive on the explorer and see what the happen...
8. This trick just only hide the drive from the explorer, the drive and all the content is safe.

And how about to show up your drive again:

1. Follow step 1 and 2 above.
2. Find the Explorer and find the "NoDrive".
3. On the "NoDrive" window, change the data value formerly was 4 (in example: drive C) or whatever identification number you have filled and change with 0 (null) or you can delete file "NoDrive".
4. Restart the PC and check your drive on the explorer
5. Have a nice try... ^_^v