How to hide drives in the computer using Command Prompt ?

We all have personal information stored in our computer. When the PC is shared, we need privacy with such data.Hiding data is one of the basic needs in case of shared PCs. There are many software’s that are used to hide the drives
in our computer.
Indeed, Windows provides the tool to hide the drives and retrieve them, using command prompt. 

The following are the steps to be followed to hide the disk drive.

Hiding drive in computer using cmd:

1.Open command prompt by typing cmd in the run command box.

This opens the command prompt.

2.Now, type “diskpart” (without quotes) and press enter.

This prompts a window to seek the admin permission, click on ‘Yes’ button. This opens a window with DISKPART

as shown below.

3.Now type “list volume”, which shows all the drive volumes of your system.

4.Now, I want to hide the disk drive D. So, we have to select it using “select volume” command.

5.Now, we have to hide it using “remove letter” command.

This is the process that is used to hide the drive. The drives in the Computer are shown as below, as we have

hidden the D drive.

Unhiding the drive using cmd:

1.Open the command prompt and type ‘diskpart’. 

2.When the new window opens, type “list volume”.

You can observe that the drive D is not turning up in the list of volumes.

3.Now, type “select volume 2” (without quote) and press enter.

4.Now, we have to assign a letter to the volume 2, using the command “assign letter”.

This finally releases the hidden drive.