Hide the Windows 10 system disk. How to open a hidden disk partition

There can be many reasons for hiding a specific partition on your hard drive in Windows. One of the most commonplace is to prevent other users from viewing or editing files on a particular partition or digging into the system drive. In addition, users often wonder about how to hide or Recovery, which may suddenly appear in Explorer after any version. They cannot be used to store files, and editing their content can have bad consequences. Such discs should be hidden out of sight. Windows offers several scenarios for such a procedure, and in this instruction we will tell you how to do it.

Note: account must have administrator rights to perform all procedures.

How to hide a drive in Windows using Disk Management

How can I get everything back?

Click Win + R and enter diskmgmt.msc.
Select the section that you have hidden, right-click on it and select Change drive letter or drive path.
If you simply deleted a letter to hide the drive, click Add and select the letter you need. Save the changes and the disk will appear in Explorer again.
If you made a secret link, then you must first remove it. Select the created path and click Delete.
Then click Add, select the desired letter and save.

Everything returned to its place.

How to hide a hard drive partition using Group Policy Editor

This is a more serious method that allows you to restrict access to the system disk. It is useful if particularly curious people have access to your computer and may accidentally or intentionally damage something in the device.

To return everything back, follow all the same steps, just specify the parameter Disabled in the editor window group policy hide selected drives.

Note: Using the Group Policy Editor, you can only hide certain drives, such as A, B, C and D. This limited set is motivated by the fact that this feature was developed for corporate needs, where their own rules apply. If you need to hide another drive, use the first method. And don't forget that the user can still access the disk using a specific file address.

If in the “My Computer” window we see several partitions, and one of them stores important data that should not be accessed strangers, we can hide it in the system.

The hidden drive will not be visible in Windows Explorer, but can be accessed through the command line or by entering the drive letter in address bar conductor.

Hide a drive via Disk Management

If you want hide drive in Windows using the panel Disk Management, → right click My computer(or This computer– depends on the system version) and select Control.

In the console Computer management go to section Storage devices.

Now double click on Disk Management.

Will open disk management console and you will be able to view all the disks of your PC.

Select the drive you want to hide and right-click. Select and click on the Delete button.

If the system asks for confirmation, click OK. Now specified the disk will be hidden.

Hide a drive using Group Policy

First, call the start menu or sidebar search (or press Win + R) and enter the command: gpedit.msc

The Local Group Policy Editor window will open, in which we can configure many useful functions Windows - including what letters should be hidden in the system.

In the window Group Policy, you need to expand the branch User Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows components → Windows Explorer.

In the right Options window, find a function called Hide selected drives from My Computer window and double-click.

A window will appear in which we can configure which drive should be hidden in the My Computer window. We need to select the Enabled item and select the required combination of disks, for example: limit only drive D:

After applying the changes, the selected disk will not be visible in the “My Computer” window; to restore it, you must select the option in the same window Off. This way all drives will be visible in Windows system.

Hide a drive using the Windows Registry

Another way hide drive in Windows – change the list of registry keys.

Press the Win + R key combination → enter the command regedit and press Enter. The system will ask for confirmation, click Yes. The Registry Editor will open.

Follow the path below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE → Software → Microsoft → Windows → CurrentVersion → Explorer

Here you need to create new parameter DWORD, to do this, right-click in the Explorer window and select Create → DWORD value (32 bits).

Name it NoDrives and double click on it to change properties. Now a console will open where you need to enter the values. In the Value field, select the drive you want to hide. Each letter has unique value as below:

A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777 216, Z: 33554432, All: 67108863

Select the appropriate value for the drive and enter that number in the Value line. Also select Decimal system calculus for the basic section. For example, if you want to hide drive G, then enter 64:

If you want hide two drives, for example, E and G, then you can enter the value one value → 80 (E = 16) + (G = 64).

Restart your computer and the drives will be hidden. If you want to return the disks, change the key value to zero, or you can delete the registry key NoDrives.

Hide Drive Using Command Line

Open a command prompt (Win + R → cmd → Enter), type the command diskpart and press Enter.
Type List Volume and press Enter.
Now select the type and number of the drive letter you want to hide (for example, drive G). For example it could be Select Volume 6. Press Enter.
Enter Remove Letter G and press Enter.

You will see a message - Diskpart successfully removed the drive letter or mount point.

To return hidden drive , follow steps 1-2-3 mentioned above.

Use the command Assign Letter G and press Enter. This will show the drive in Explorer.

You can also use free programs, like HideCalc, so that hide drive in Windows. Or read the comments below.

On many new laptop models hard drives users can discover hidden section. The fact is that laptop developers often do not complete their products with disks with operating systems, but simply save the OS image along with everything necessary software in a special hidden section. In the usual way It is not always possible to open it.

You will need

- a computer with Windows OS;
- PartitionMagic program.

Instructions

There are several ways to open a hidden section. One of the simplest is to use standard means operating system. Click Start. Select All Programs, then Accessories. IN standard programs find and open command prompt. IN command line enter diskmgmt.msc. Press Enter. After a few seconds, the Disk Management window will open.

This window displays all sections in full. hard drive, including hidden ones. Find the hidden section you need in this window. Right-click on it. Then in the resulting context menu select "Open".

If the first method did not help you, then try the next one. First, you need to download the PartitionMagic program from the Internet to work with hard drives. The program is commercial, but there is trial period its use, which is one month. After downloading, install the application on your computer. Reboot your machine.

Launch PartitionMagic. In the main menu of the program there is a list of all hard drive partitions. Right-click on the hidden section. After that, select “Open” from the context menu.

Also in some cases this method can help. Click Start. Open the Control Panel shortcut. In the Control Panel window, select the Folder Options shortcut. After that, go to the “View” tab, in which find the “Hidden files and folders” section. In this section, check the box “Show hidden files, folders and disks."

Next, in the “Files and Folders” section, find the line “Hide protected files and folders.” Tag her. After selecting all the options, click Apply and OK. Close all windows. Restart your computer. Now hidden hard section The disk should be accessible and you can open it.

Tip added on October 5, 2011 Tip 2: How to see a hidden section Sometimes it can be interesting how the system that we used to call a computer or laptop works and how many resources it has in reserve. In particular, whether there are hidden unused partitions on the hard drive. You can find out using Acronis programs Disk Director 11 Home.

You will need

- Acronis Disk Director 11 Home program.

Instructions

Download the Acronis Disk Director 11 Home utility from the official developer website (the link to the download page is at the end of the article). When installing the program, in the third dialog box, specify “Install trial version“- its functionality will be sufficient to solve your problem. Click “Next” and in the new window be sure to fill out the fields “First Name” “Last Name” and “ Email address"(possibly fake). In the following windows, feel free to click “Next”, and in the final one, “Continue”. The installation of the program will begin, after which the program icon will appear on the desktop.

Launch Acronis Disk Director 11 Home double click by this icon. If your operating system is Windows Vista or Windows 7 and in addition to this you have increased security settings, a window may appear asking for permission to make changes to the program being launched. Click “Yes” on it.

Now leave for a while running program at rest, but open. Click the Start button in the taskbar and then My Computer (or just Computer if you have Windows Vista or Windows 7). Remember how many logical partitions (volumes) your hard drive(or hard drives, if there are several of them) and what names they have (C, D, F, etc.).

Go back to Acronis Disk Director 11 Home. The main part of the program is occupied by a field in which logical partitions(volumes) of the system. Compare their number and names with what you saw in the “My Computer” (“Computer”) window. Those partitions that are present in the Acronis program window and not in “My Computer” are hidden. They can be either very small, 7-8 megabytes, or large, several gigabytes. Secondly, as a rule, operating system distributions are stored in case of failure.

Link to Acronis Disk Director 11 Home download page

How to see a hidden section - printable version

IN operating system Windows 7 and 8 and what it is for. Nothing has changed for Windows 10. The same disk is displayed in the Disk Management utility and is intended to protect and store OS boot files. However, if it bothers you or you do not want to allow other users of your PC to manipulate this section, you should hide it. There are a lot of methods to hide a disk reserved by the system in Windows 10. Let's take a closer look at them.

Hide System Reserved using the command line

To hide the System Reserved drive in Windows 10, you should follow a few simple steps:

Press “Win+R” and enter “cmd”.

The console will open. Enter the first command “diskpart”. Then we write “list volume” to see all the partitions that the hard drive has.

Let's assume that Volume 1 is Reserved by the system (in our case it is system partition). Often its size is 450 MB.
Now enter “select volume N”, where N is the partition number.

After selecting the volume, enter “remove letter=E”, where E is the letter of the volume that you want to hide.
To exit the utility, enter “exit”.

Now in Windows 10 this section will be invisible.

How to hide a partition in Windows 10 via Disk Management?

Often, in the Windows 10 operating system, you can see the System Reserved section only in the Disk Management utility. Using the same utility, you can hide and display it. To do this we do the following:

Press “Win+R” and enter “msc”.

A new window will appear. Right-click on Reserved by the system or disk that you want to remove from this list. Select “Change drive letter or drive path...”.

In a new window, select the disk and click “Delete”.

The disk will not be deleted, it will only disappear from Explorer.

Hiding the Reserved Section through the Local Group Policy Editor

The entire operational array required for Windows operation 10 is stored on disk Reserved by the system. If you want to hide it using the Local Group Policy Editor, your actions should be as follows:

Press “Win+R” and enter “gpedit.msc”.

Go to the branch “User Configuration”, “Administrative Templates”, “Windows Components”, “Explorer”. In the window on the right, select “Hide selected drives from My Computer window.”

Double click to open the parameter and set the value to “Enabled”.

Afterwards we restart the computer.

Editing the registry as a method for hiding a drive in Explorer

To hide a section using this method, do the following:

Press “Win+R” and enter “regedit”.

The Registry Editor will open. Go to the branch “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer”. Right-click on last section and select “New”, “32-bit DWORD Value”. Let's name this parameter "NoDrive".
The value is set according to the table. In this table we select the value according to the letter of the reserved partition.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K
1	2	4	8	16	32	64	128	256	512	1024
L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V
2048	4096	8192	16384	32768	65536	131072	262144	524288	1048576	2097152
W	X	Y	Z
4194304	8388608	16777216	33554432

After making changes to system registry it is worth rebooting the system.

To learn how to hide the System Reserved section, watch the video:

Hello friends. After the update, or Windows installations 7 you have has a partition (disk) called “System Reserved” appeared? It's okay, now let's try to solve this problem.

I somehow downloaded a new one and installed it on my laptop, not even for myself. After installation, I went to “My Computer” and saw that, along with the usual drives C, D, etc., a disk called “Reserved by the system” appeared. It is approximately 100 MB in size. I didn’t want to leave it, especially since the laptop is not mine and there was little they could do with this partition, for example, delete files from it. Therefore, I had to hide it manually.

This partition is created during the Windows 7 installation process, when we . The system warns you about the creation of this backup partition. But it should be hidden, but for some reason in my case it received the letter, if I’m not mistaken, then also E, and was displayed along with all local drives.

How to hide the “System Reserved” section?

Let's now proceed to actions that will help us remove the “Reserved by the system” section; it won’t disappear anywhere, we just won’t see it.

Click “Start”, then right-click on “Computer” and select “Management”.

A window will open in which we click on the right “Disk Management”, wait a little while the system loads the information, and look for our section in the list, which is called "Reserved by the system". Right-click on it and select “Change drive letter or drive path...”.

A window will appear in which we delete our letter by clicking on “Delete”. We answer “Yes” to all questions.