How to Hide a drive in windows xp

By changing a value in registry you can hide drives.It is also possible to hide all drives in mycomputer.To hide a drive follow these steps.



Hide a drive in windows :


1. Goto Start-->Run
2. Type regedit
3. In registry Expand
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-->Software-->Microsoft-->Windows-->Currentversion-->Policies-->Explorer
4. Create a DWORD value with name NoDrives

5. Double click on NoDrives
6. Select radio button Decimal

 Here i am going to hide the drive E:\ the respective value is 16
8. Select the appropriate value from table

Drive	Value
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

9. Type the value under value data and click on ok

10. Restart computer


Note : The hidden drive can be access by typing its address in explorer.The drive is not visible in my computer,search box etc.