How to Hide or Unhide Disk partition in Windows 8 using Command prompt

It is not a tough task to hide or unhide disk partitions in Windows 8/7/Vista/XP; there are many ways to do that; even software is there to do that. But now we are going to see the easiest way to hide or unhide a disk partition in just 5 steps. It’s helpful to protect your personal files from other people as well as from our kids, who may access them or delete them accidentally. So in order to avoid this, you can use this simple method.

Step 1:

Type windows + R, and the run command will appear like in the below picture. Type cmd in that and press enter

windows + R -> Cmd -> press enter

Step 2:

Now command prompt will open, like in the below picture, and type ‘diskpart’ in that without quotes

Step 3:

Now  another command prompt will pop up. Type ‘list volume’ in that command prompt without quotes and then press enter

Step 4:

Now you can see your hard disk partition along with their assigned letter. Now select the partition that you want to hide. Here I am going to hide the ‘official’ partition, which is volume number 7. so i am giving  command  -> select volume 7 ->  press enter and now type -> remove letter F -> enter

(Here ‘F’ is the letter assigned to volume 7.) Suppose if you want to hide the ‘Backup’ partition, then you should give ‘select volume 5 -> press enter -> remove letter I -> press enter’.

Now  you can check whether its hidden or not by going to ‘My Computer’. That’s it. In just 4 steps, we have hidden the disk partition . you can check the below picture; there is no ‘F partitioned disk.’

Step 5:

Now to unhide the same, you have to give an extra command; the rest of the steps are the same, i.e., instead of ‘remove letter F’, you have to give ‘ assign letter f’ .As simple as that.check the below picture for reference

Now again, if you check ‘My Computer,’ you can find the assigned letter’s corresponding Partitioned Disk