How to hide drive in Vista Home Premiun

[MrPB]

In XP I could use TweakUI to hide disk drives from the kids and was still able to use them. There is no TweakUI for Vista and I've tried to hide a drive with registry tweaks(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer) and via command prompt (using diskpart). The problem is that both ways leave hidden drives that are not usable. It's as if they truely do not exist. Can anyone tell me is it possible to hide a drive in Vista and still be able to use it, and if so, how?

TIA,
MrPB

 

[BadBigBen]

registry tweaks - have you done it like this:

Hide Drives from Your Computer in Windows Vista

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/hide-drives-from-your-computer-in-windows-vista/

or perhaps this might be the ticket:

How to Hide or Unhide a Drive in Vista

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/155795-drive-hide-unhide.html

PS: I found both with one GOOGLE search!

Ben
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[MrPB]

Yup, those are the same ones I found with Google. They don't allow you to use the drive while it is hidden. I'm hoping there is a way, but I haven't found it yet.

 

[linney]

Is this worth your investigation?

"When I say hide a drive what I mean is that you won't be able to see it when you go to My Computer but that you will still be able to access it if you type in the drives location and programs will still be able to use the drive."

Hide a Drive in Vista.

http://computerkid.blogspot.com/2007/09/hide-drive-in-vista.html

 

[MrPB]

linney,

I guess Microsoft changed Vista since computerkid wrote this in his blog in 2007, because it is the same method already listed. He said it allowed you to still use the hidden drive, but In my experience that is not (or no longer) true. When you try to access the hidden drive, you get a "drive does not exist" error.

Thanks,
mrpb