How to Enable or Disable Create Dev Drive in Windows 11 Simplify your hard drive management or improve your developer workflow. Here’s how to enable or disable your Dev Drive on Windows 11 Before we begin, be sure to subscribe to NinjaOne’s IT video hub and our YouTube channel for more tech content like this. What is a Dev Drive Your device’s Dev Drive is an ReFS-formatted volume dedicated to web or app developers. With this, developer users can create, store and organize code operations more efficiently. However, for the average user, having a Dev Drive may not be necessary, and they may preferably wish to have it disabled. Whichever the case, here are three ways to enable or disable “Create Dev Drive” on Windows 11. Three Methods to Enable or Disable Dev Drive Creation Method 1 - Group Policy Let’s start with the Group Policy, which is ideal for shared, managed, or enterprise developer environments. Open the Group Policy Editor and navigate to this path: Double-click Enable Dev Drive creation and choose from one of these three options: Enabled, to create Dev Drives via Settings or Storage Spaces; Disabled, to stop creating Dev Drives; And Not Configured, to leave system at the default settings. Save changes to the policy by restarting your computer or running gpupdate /force on Command Prompt. Method 2 - Registry Editor Next method to discuss is the Registry Editor. This is useful if your PC does not have Group Policy Editor Run the Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft \Windows\System Create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named EnableDevDrive and set the value to: 1 to enable Dev Drive creation 0 to disable Dev Drive creation Restart the system for the change to take effect. Method 3 - PowerShell For our final method, PowerShell lets you automate Dev Drive configuration using scripted commands, ideal for large-scale or managed deployments. Open PowerShell as administrator and use this code to enable or this code to disable. Like with the Group Policy method, save changes by running gpupdate /force on Command Prompt. Configuring Dev Drive availability allows your device to adapt to different user needs, whether it’s optimized for developers or streamlined for non-development use. For more information, check out our official blog post on How to Enable or Disable Create Dev Drive in Windows 11, linked in the description below.