Introduction: Hide & See Partition in Windows 7/8/8.1

By Arduino Addiction
About: Curious by nature. Like to know how things works & love to learn about them. Especially electrical, electronics, mechanical, micro-processors.

Hello Friends.

In this instructable, i have shown how to hide & get back windows partition.

So lets get back to work.

Steps for hiding the partition :

  • Go to My Computer, & decide which partition you want to hide.
  • Now, press Windows + R key, and type "diskmgmt.msc" & hit enter.
  • A new window will open named Disk Management
  • Now, right click on the partition you want to hide.
  • click on " Change Drive Letter and Paths.
  • select the alphabet, click Remove.
  • Your partition is hidden now.
  • you can check it in My Computer.


Steps for get it back :

  • Go to Disk Management again
  • right click on the same partition ( if you have forgot which partition you have hide then, look for the partition which has no letter)

  • click on " Change Drive Letter and Paths.

  • click on Add

  • ( If you are doing this first time then don't try to modify any other settings)

  • click OK

  • Your partition is alive again !!

  • you can check it in My Computer.

  • just Refresh the screen one time.

Step 1: Video

You can check this video tutorial too :