Hide a Drive

1. Go to Start > run > type "diskpart".(Without Quote)
a dos window will appear with following prompt.

DISKPART>
2. Then type "list volume" this will look like it

Volume### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
-------------- ---- ------ --- ----- ---- ------- --
Volume 0 F DC-ROM
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 7000MB Healthy
Volume 2 D soft NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy
Volume 3 E ---- NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy

3. If u wanna hide drive E then type "select volume 3"then a message will appear in same winwods { Volume 3 is the selected volume}

4. Now type " remove letter E" now a message will come { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter }sometime it requires the reboot the computer .

5. Diskpart will remove the letter .Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unkown volume.

Don't be afraid about the data, it will remain in the drive. To Come back to the Drive repeat the process . but in 4th step which is shown in this post replace " remove" to "assign"i mean type " assign letter E"