POINT

If u r having any material like porn movies , important docs and u r afraid abt it . dont wory windows XP provides (not officialy ) a utility by which u can hide urs one or more drives .

1. Go to Start > run > type "diskpart".
a dos window will appear with following discription.
DISKPART>

2. then type "list volume"

this will look like it

Volume### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
-------------- ---- ------ --- ----- ---- ------- -----

Volume 0 F DC-ROM
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 7000MB Healthy
Volume 2 D soft NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy
Volume 3 E Porn NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy


3.if u wanna hide drive E then type "select volume 3"

then a message will appear in same winwods { Volume 3 is the selected volume}

4.now type " remove letter E"
now a message will come { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter }
sometime it requires the reboot the computer .

Diskpart will remove the letter .Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unkown volume.

Don afraid ur Data will ramin same .
to Come backe the Drive repeat the process . but in 4th step whish is shown in this post replace " remove" to "assign"
i mean type " assign letter E"





-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using GPEDIT:

In the "Run" type "gpedit.msc"
In the "User Configuration" Section got to the "Administrative Templates"
then into "Windows Explorer"
When you select "Windows Explorer", in the right pane you will find
"Hide these specified drives in My Computer"
Open it by double clicking, and choose "Enabled" and choose the drives you want to hide from the drop-down list...

Note : Only works with XP Pro




----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hide Drives in My Computer (All Windows) Popular
This setting allows you to control which drives are visible in My Computer and Explorer. It is possible to hide all drives or just selected ones.

Open your registry and find or create the key below.

The "NoDrives" value uses a 32-bit word to define local and network drive visibility for each logical drive in the computer. The lower 26 bits of the 32-bit word correspond to drive letters A through Z. Drives are visible when set to 0 and hidden when set to 1.

If your not happy working in Hex, add these decimal numbers to hide the drive(s):

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

For example to hide drive A and drive D, you would add 1 (A) + 8 (D) which means the value should be set to "9".

To disable all the drives set the value to "67108863".

Restart Windows for the change to take effect.

Note: These drives will still appear in File Manager, to remove File Manager, delete or rename winfile.exe.


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Another Method


Hide
1.)Highlight the specific files you want you want to hide
2.)Right click with the mouse and click on "properties" to bring up the file properties window
3.)Where iot says "attributes" click hide.

Show hidden files
1.)Open any folder
2.)Go to Tools > Folder Options
3.)Click on the "View" tab
4.)Where it says 'hidden files and folders', click do not show/do show, depending on what you want to do.