HOW TO HIDE A LOCAL DRIVE OR PARTITION IN WINDOWS 8.1?

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Suppose you have stored some important files in a drive D and you don’t want others to access your important files  so what you can do is, you can hide the D drive so that it remains invisible in my computer.
           
So in this tutorial I am going to show you how to hide a local drive or partition in windows 8.1.
Follow the steps:-


1.    Right click at start menu and click run.

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2.    At the run dialog box type gpedit.msc and press enter.
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3.    At the left of the Group Policy Editor expand User Configuration>Administrative Template>Windows Components then click on File explorer.
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4.    At the right side double click to open Hide these specified drives in My Computer setting.
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5.    Click enable and select the drive D and click apply and ok.
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6.    Now open run dialog box again and type gpupdate  and press enter to
                  make the changes to take effect without restart your PC.
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                        Now open my computer and you will not see D drive.

                        To access this hidden drive without unhiding it

                        Just open run dialog box and type the drive letter i.e. D: and press enter.
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                            Done!









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