HIDE Hard-Drives

SHOW/HIDE Hard-Drives from My Computer

There are times when you might want to hide one or more of your windows drives because of security reasons (children getting up on the system and messing up everything or if the computer is in use by multiple people). For theses reasons, you would just prefer to hide your data in a safe place and if one of your drives is full of sensitive information, you would rather hide the drive from My Computer.

There is a way of doing it, from the "group policy editor". Let me explain you both of them:

Hiding drives using Group Policy Editor:

Go to Start –> Run –> gpedit.msc
The group policy editor will open. Go to the following node:
User Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> Windows Explorer
Now go to the right hand window and double click the value “Hide these specified drives in My Computer”, select enable and select the drives from the drop down menu.

Note: This is restrictive in the sense that it only specifies drives up to D drive. Or all the drives can be hidden.