HOW TO RESTRICT HARD DRIVE ACCESS FROM OTHER USERS.

Here, I am presenting the simple trick to hide and then proceed to restrict access hard drive of your computer from other users. Just follow the simple procedure.

Requirement: You will need administrator access to be able to carry out this.

Step 1:  Right-click on my Computer and select ‘Manage’ from the pop-up menu.

Step 2: You will notice the Windows Computer management window pop-up on your screen then go to the Disk Management icon in the bottom of the left-hand side menu.

Step 3: Clicking on the icon, you will reveal all the drives on your system. Right click on the drive that you want to make invisible and hide from other user accounts. Choose Change Drive letter and Paths in the pop-up menu.

Step 4: Here you will have to assign the drive which you have to hide from other accounts. Click on Remove. While doing this, make sure that no program is being run from that drive, and click Yes. Now the drive letter will (C, D, E, F….) disappears.

Step 5: To access the data on the hidden drive, you will have to assign it a mounting location, an access point. To do this right chick on the hidden drive, go to  Drive letter and Paths in the pop-up menu. Further click on Add and Mount in the following empty NTFS folder. Browser for a suitable folder (preferably in My Documents) or create one on some other drive.

Finally, when all this is done. Open My Computer, you will not seeing that drive and there is a drive missing. The new folder (in My documents) can be made private. Enjoy……