Hidden Local Drive & CD Drive

Hi friends !!!
Today I'm going to show you, how to hide Local Drives without using any software and how to get back hidden CD Drive on your PC.

How to Hide a Local Drive?

Click on Start - Run

In Run box type "cmd" – hit Enter

Now Command Prompt window will appear. Now type “diskpart” and hit Enter.

Then type "list volume" and hit Enter.

Now it will display all the computer details.

After that, type the Drive Letter which you want to hide. 

(Example: If you want to hide volume F, type “select volume F” and hit Enter.)

Now follow mentioned massage will appear to you.

“Volume 0 is the selected volume”

After this, type “remove letter F” and hit an Enter. Now restart your PC once and check.  The particular Drive won’t show in “My Computer”.

To get back Hidden Drive again.

Do the above mentioned steps again.

Click Start - Run - cmd - diskpart - list volume - select volume F 

Next type “assign letter D” and hit Enter.

Once again restart your PC, now the hidden Drive will show in “My Computer”

Note: By doing this Computer doesn't lost any data.

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How to get back Hidden CD Drive again?

Sometime when we insert CD in to computer, CD drive won’t display in "My Computer". Even if the CD drives works properly and if it doesn't show in "My Computer",

Let’s see what to do?

Check whether the CD Drive is Enable or Disable in “Device Manager”. Also check whether the IDE Cable which is connected from CPU to DVD drive is damage or broken.

Even if the CD Drive doesn’t show yet in “My Computer”, we can get back CD Drive to “My Computer” by making some changes in “Registry”.

Click on Start – Run

type “regedit”

Now “Registry Editor” window will open.

Then find the following path.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -->

SYSTEM -->

CurrentControlSet --> 

Control -->

Class -->  Click on {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

In right side, if there “UpperFilter”, “LowerFilter” sub keys,

Just Delete it. (To Delete, Right Click --> Delete --> Yes)

Now Restart your PC once!!!