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How to hide the physical drives in Windows Explorer

If you don’t want your individual physical drives/partitions to show up in Windows Explorer or My Computer (you’ll still be able to access them from the Run box), you can do so by editing the registry. Here’s how:

Open the registry editor and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer

In the right details pane, right click an empty space and select New, then Binary Value.

Name the new value “NoDrives” (without the quotation marks).

Double click the value and in the Value Data field, enter the following numbers, depending on the drive letter(s) you want to hide:

C: 04 00 00 00

D: 08 00 00 00

E: 10 00 00 00

F: 20 00 00 00

G: 40 00 00 00

H: 80 00 00 00

I: 00 01 00 00

J: 00 02 00 00

K: 00 04 00 00

If you have drive letters that extend past K, you’ve probably figured out the pattern by now. If not, see the full list here:

http://www.wxpnews.com/AJB4NJ/081202-Hide-Drives