How to hide disks and specific drives from Windows. Users hide disks and specific drives from Windows for a number of reasons, be it Privacy Concerns organization, or for management purposes. If you're looking to keep things tidy. The good news is that it is quite easy to learn how to hide discs and specific drives from Windows. Before we begin, be sure to subscribe to Ninja One's IT Video Hub for more tech content like this, how to hide disks and drives from Windows. In this chapter, we'll show you how to hide disks and drives using DISC Management Group Policy Editor, and Windows Registry disc management. This method is relatively straightforward, right? Click the start button, then click on disc management. A list of drives will then appear. Select the one you want to hide, then right click it and select Choose Drive, letter and paths. Finally, select Remove Group Policy editor. This method will only work if you are using Windows Pro or Enterprise. To pull up the group policy editor, press Windows plus R, then type G ped, msc, and press enter. Select user configuration, followed by administrative templates, choose Windows components. Then finally, file Explorer. Double click hide these specified drives in my computer and make sure this option is enabled. Choose the drives you wanna hide and then click apply. Restart your system for these changes to take effect. Windows Registry. Using Windows Registry is the most complicated option. Out of three, especially as making mistakes on registry can lead to system issues. Make sure you are following these instructions precisely to avoid errors. Once Windows registry is open, locate the following path. Then right click any empty space within the right pane and select new D Word 32 bit value. Name the value no drives, and set it according to the drives you want to hide. For this method, the value you set will determine which drives are hidden. The C Drive, for instance, is at a value of four. If you wanna hide multiple drives, you'll need to get the values of each drive and then add the values together. Hiding discs and drives from Windows is a good way to keep your system secure, but you shouldn't stop there. Full IT protection encompasses user authentication, network monitoring, and more. For more information, check out our official blog post on hiding diss and drives from Windows linked in the description below.