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Friday, July 15, 2011

How to hide computer drives to secure data?

Follow the given steps to change the system drives registry value:
  • To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with
        administrative rights.
  • Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

    • Here locate the location to:
    ·         HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer


    ·         Here in right side panel, right click to create a new DWORD value
         with name NoDrives (it is case sensitive), then assign number
         to its value data box.


    ·         Now if you want to hide all system drives then modify value data
         to 3FFFFFF .


    ·         For specific drive use values (For example, for A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
         H drives, the values are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128 respectively).
    ·         In this case we are trying to hide F drive, so we modify the value data
         box to 32.


    ·         Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any
        changes to go into effect.
    ·         But next time, if you want to unhide this drive then simply change
        the value data box or delete the DWORD item.
    •  Again close the registry editor and restart your computer after any
             changes to go into effect.




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