Trick On How To Hide Drive Using Command Prompt

If you want to hide your Disk Drive then you can easily do it with command prompt trick.This trick works on all versions of windows i.e windows 98,xp,vista and windows 7.

You can also learn the trick to Create an Invisible Folder

Follow these simple steps To Hide Disk Drive

1. Click on Start Button in taskbar and then goto Run
2. In Run type cmd. (This will open Command Prompt)
3. Now type Diskpart in command prompt and press Enter key. (This will start your Diskpart session)
4. Now type List volume (This will list all your volumes)

5. Now you have to select a volume that you want to hide.Example Type select volume 3 and your volume 3 will be selected.
6. Type Remove letter F (you should type your volume name instead of F).

The drive will now get hidden(If not just restart your computer).

Trick on How To Unhide The Hidden drive Using Command prompt

1. To Unhide the Drive follows the steps 1-5 as mentioned above.
2. Now Type assign letter F (You should type your volume name instead of F)

Now your hidden drive will be visible.(If not just Restart your computer)

Trick to Remove Write Protection Error in USB Pen Drive

If while  transferring data using your pendrive you get an error like Disk is Write Protected then neither  you can send data into it nor copy any data from the pen drive to your PC. By using this  trick  you can easily remove this error from your Pen Drive.Perform it carefully as it requires editing of registry code.

Trick to Remove Write Protection Error in USB Pen Drive:-

• Open Run Dialog box by Pressing Window+R.
• Type Regedit and Press Enter.
• Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrrentControlSet\Controland look for StorageDevicePolicies.

• If you cannot find StorageDevicePolicies there then do create this file first.(Look at the end of this article for instructions )
• Now you will see WriteProtect in your right window pane, double click on it.
• In the Value Data field  change the value to 0(zero).
• Now restart your system and then use your pen drive.

There is an alternative method to do this just download this zip file that contains both files i.e. Enable/Disable Write Protection: click here.

Method to Create StorageDevicePolicies File:-

• Click Start, type regedit.exe and hit ENTER.
• Navigate to the following location:
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrrentControlSet\Control
• Right-click Control and select New and Key.
• Name it as StorageDevicePolicies and Right click on it
• Select New > DWORD and name it as WriteProtect.

• Double click on it and set its value to 0 (zero).
• Restart your system and this would Disable write protect on USB.