SECURE DATA IN YOUR HARD DRIVE WITHOUT SOFTWARE

SECURE DATA IN YOUR HARD DRIVE BY HIDING PARTITIONS

THE PROBLEM:

    - How can I protect my confidential data found in a partition.  

   

   

   

THE PRINCIPLE:

Securing confidential data is very essential and there are many ways or tools to hide or password protect your files and folders. I have already described a way to hide a file(s) in a file  in a previous article. Here is another way. If you have your hard drive partitioned and have a particular partition in which you put all your sensible and private files, this will be very useful to you. I personally use this process amongst others to hide my sensible data.

We will use the DISKPART command to hide a partition of your choice, making it invisible in the Windows Explorer. This Works on XP, Vista and Seven.

THE SOLUTION:

Follow these steps:

   

1) Open the command prompt (Start> Run> "cmd" OR WINDOWS + R then type "cmd")

2) Once upon type "diskpart" without the quotes, you should see something like what is shown below.

3) Type "list volume" without the quotes, this command displays a list of all the partitions present in your computer.You should see something like what is shown below.

You can notice that there are 3 partitions, C, D and E respectively. Now you must note the number of the volume you want to hide. For example, If you want to hide the D partition (DATA), you should note the number "1".

4) Type "select volume " without the quotes, for example type "select volume 1", to select the D partition. You should see something like what is shown below.

The system language on the screenshot is in french, but the text simply tells you that volume 1 has been selected.

5) Type "remove letter " without the quotes, for example "remove letter D" to hide partition D. This command will remove the drive letter from the partition and make the partition hidden in Windows explorer.

NOTE: You must restart your computer to see the effect.

You should see something like what is shown below.

 And after computer restart, you can notice the D partition has turned invisible.

6) To get back the drive again, just type the following command : "assign letter "

NOTE: When assigning the letter back to the partition, you must have to select the volume again as you had done before.

Immediately after typing this command and pressing enter, you can notice that the partition re-appears on the Windows explorer.

Using the above method, you can keep all your private data in a partition of your choice, hide the partition.

When you need to access them just make the partition visible again.

Hope it helps! Stay tuned!

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