Windows 7 – Hiding Local Disk

You are using Windows 7 and you have very important information , all this information are in one of your local disks like (C:/ or D:/) so you want to hide this local disk to prevent any one to easily access this information .

How To Hide a Local Diska in Windows 7

It is easy … you don’t want to use any additional program just open start menu -> Run -> regedit -> press enter

now you are in the registry witch is the database of your operating system contain important information  about hardware , installed programs and settings , and profile of user accounts in your computer .

in the registry browse the following key :

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

if the Explorer key doesn’t exist just right click and new key then name it Explorer.

Now you are inside the Explorer key you have to create a 32-bit DWORD key by clicking right click then new 32-bit DWORD and name it  NoDrives.

Now you are in the most important part how to determine which drive I want to hide ??

you should enter a Hexadecimal or Decimal value to determine which drive to hide .

Let’s assume that I want to Hide Drives C: and E: so I should set the value of the NoDrives 32-bit DWORD key with a value of 32 bit number so just we arrange it like this :

Convert the number (10100) to a decimal number  , the answer is (20) or to hexadecimal value and the answer is (0x14) .

then double click on the NoDrives key and add even 20 and choose Decimal or 0x14 and choose Hexadecimal.

Restart your machine and Congratulation you hided the drivers that you want to hide 🙂 .