> How to hide drives in Windows XP

Here is how you can hide one or more of your drives (logical partitions)Windows XP provides (not officialy ) a utility by which u can hide one or more drives .1. Go to Start > run > type "diskpart".a dos window will appear with following discription.DISKPART>2. Then type "list volume"this will look like itVolume### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info-------------- ---- ------ --- ----- ---- ------- -----Volume 0 F DC-ROMVolume 1 C NTFS Partition 7000MB HealthyVolume 2 D soft NTFS Partition 8000MB HealthyVolume 3 E Docs NTFS Partition 8000MB Healthy3.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 .Diskpart will remove the letter .Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unknown volume.Don afraid ur Data will remain safe .To bring back the Drive repeat the process, but in 4th step above, replace " remove" by "assign"i.e. type " assign letter E"Enjoy