Comments on: Hide Drives from Your Computer in Windows 7 or Vista

By: BSOD

BSOD — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:01:09 +0000

Great thanks!
I just did in Windows seven and works just fine!

By: Paul Coddington

Paul Coddington — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:09:00 +0000

@CURT

Use HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for all users.

You cannot set HKEY_CURRENT_USER policy in a non-admin user account (because otherwise non-admin users could revoke the restrictions placed on them by network admins).

By: Chhunly

Chhunly — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:14:01 +0000

That’s great dude, I can short out my issue. Any way I have tried with winXP so I strongly hope that it will work with my widow Vista home.
Cheers,

By: Munim

Munim — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:24:09 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I have hidden my laptop’s recovery partition!

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:54:43 +0000

Hey, is this a “Per User” setting or an “All User” setting?
Thanks.

By: Nitin

Nitin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:37:16 +0000

thanks geek…
this works very fine, keep it up….

By: WiseAdmin

WiseAdmin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:21:41 +0000

Far better to use:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Nodrives

And then the drive is hidden for all users, instead of just the user who is logged in when you run regedit.

By: waltzie

waltzie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:25:51 +0000

To hide more drives just SUM them & put into NoDrive value

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:56:15 +0000

Ok I followed the instructions and was able to hide 1 drive but how do you hide 3 drives. I cannot add another NoDrives key for each hdd so how do I hide 3 at a time?

By: Stephen Kreyenbuhl

Stephen Kreyenbuhl — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:04:38 +0000

You can also disable the drive from the Device Manager. No need to uninstall the driver, no need to hack the registry, no need to reboot explorer.exe.