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Thursday, 19 January 2012

To hide computer drives to protect data using Registry.


It shows how to hide drives to protect against unauthorized access using Registry.
Keywords: Registry, Drives, Hard disk, Drive.

Steps to Hide computer Drive.

Step 1: click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

 
Step 2: Then locate : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer

Step 3: Right click on the right side panel to create a new DWORD value with name NoDrive(Case sensitive)


Step 4: Then open the file and modify the value to 3FFFFFF (if we want to hide all drive)



Step 5: For hide certain Drive use the following Values.

A             -              1
B             -              2
C             -              4
D             -              8
E              -              16
F              -              32
G             -              64
H             -              128 and goes like that

Step 7: If we want to hide C Drive, modify the value to 4.


Step 8: Now restart your system for the changes to take place.
(imp: To restore changes that made, just delete or change the value of the file)

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