How to hide an entire drive from prying eyes on Windows 10 | Windows Central
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/25
For my link archive: 3 ways to hide drive letters.
TL;DR:
- Using
diskman.msc(Disk Management) by removing drive letters or/and changing the mount point to be in another drive. - Using
regedit.exe(or other Registry Editor likereg.exe) for a bitmap of drive letters to add a value named [WayBack]NoDrivesto- globally to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer - locally for the current user to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
- globally to
- Using
secpol.msc(Local Security Policy editor, or find it throughgpedit.msc) to add a security policy similar to the registry.
Source: [WayBack] How to hide an entire drive from prying eyes on Windows 10 | Windows Central
After setting NoDrive you have to reboot (logoff/logon isn’t sufficient).
For the NoDrive bitmap: these list below has the values to add for each drive to hide, but it’s easier to use the [WayBack] NT Drive Calculator – The ‘NoDrives’ Registry Key Value Calculator which calculates the Decimal version of the value needed.
- A: 1,
- B: 2,
- C: 4,
- D: 8,
- E: 16,
- F: 32,
- G: 64,
- H: 128,
- I: 256,
- J: 512,
- K: 1024,
- L: 2048,
- M: 4096,
- N: 8192,
- O: 16384,
- P: 32768,
- Q: 65536,
- R: 131072,
- S: 262144,
- T: 524288,
- U: 1048576,
- V: 2097152,
- W: 4194304,
- X: 8388608,
- Y: 16777216,
- Z: 33554432,
- ALL: 67108863.
–jeroen
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