[tomisafish]

NoDrives Manager is a simple, free tool for hiding Windows logical drives by modifying the registry. The hidden drives are still accessible but they are not visible in the Windows Explorer.

http://nodrvman.sourceforge.net/

[ketsat02]

Originally Posted by tomisafish

NoDrives Manager is a simple, free tool for hiding Windows logical drives by modifying the registry. The hidden drives are still accessible but they are not visible in the Windows Explorer.

http://nodrvman.sourceforge.net/

Please don't use it with Windows Server 2003 and 2008

[Elvandil]

Originally Posted by ketsat02

Please don't use it with Windows Server 2003 and 2008

Why?

[harri888]

Hiding a partition in Windows is not an all-users trick.
There are also partition programs (e.g. Paragon's) who supposedly hides your partition just as well, but in reality the partitions are hidden FOR THE CURRENT USER ONLY.

I had a bad surprise to see that I hid 3 partitions as an Administrator, then I went to Guest account (limited user) and all my "hidden" partitions were visible like nothing happened. And restarting my computer did not help either.

I think the reason is because it's only a Registry settings and that setting is User-dependent, not system wide.

A solution would be to try the Security settings in Properties (only for NTFS partitions, you can set permissions for listing, writing/reading, etc)

A better but more complicated solution is to encrypt the partition entirely (google TrueCrypt freeware), or mount hidden file-volumes.

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[Elvandil]

Partitions that are given the hidden attribute (flag) in their partition tables are hidden from the entire operating system and that has nothing to do with the registry, the user, or anything else in the OS.