How to Hide a Partition in Windows 10

What are the purposes of hiding partition on your Windows computer?

Hiding a drive or a partition on your computer means that it will no longer be visible to the users. There can be a number of benefits of hiding a partition which is why several inbuilt tools are provided by both Mac and Windows for hiding a specific partition on the computer. Some of the major reasons why people hide a partition include:

• Hiding the partition is a convenient way of restricting the access to it. Once your partition is hidden, you are sure that even if other people use your computer, they will not be able to access your private data.
• You can create a back up of your important data and then hide that particular partition to discourage the damage to your back up.
• An indirect benefit of hiding a partition is that it increases the speed of search operation on your computer. Moreover it also enables the user to handle the rest of the partitions effectively.

• How to hide partition in Windows? (Using disk management app)
• How to unhide Partition in Windows?
• How to hide partition in Windows 10? (Using command prompt)
• How to unhide a partition in Windows 10?
• How to Recover Lost Data from Partition
• Video Tutorial of Partition Recovery

Part 1: How to hide partition in Windows? (Using disk management app)

Windows operating system provides a convenient disk management utility tool that can help the users in hiding or un-hiding a partition effectively. You can follow the steps below to hide a partition through disk management utility in Windows:

Step 1: Launch the disk management utility

The first step in the process of hiding a partition through disk management app is to launch the disk management utility. You can launch this tool by either searching through start menu or through the command prompt. Search for "˜computer management' from your start menu. You can also right click on the "my computer" icon to open a context menu. Choose "˜manage' from the context menu to launch the disk management utility.

Step 2: Change drive letter and path

Once you have launched the disk management app, you can see the details of each and every partition and drive on your computer. Select any drive and right click on it to open the context menu. Choose "change drive letter and path" from this context menu and a pop up window will appear. Click the "remove" button in this new window. Check the confirmation box to hide the partition.

Part 2: How to unhide Partition in Windows?

If you are learning to hide a partition in Windows, it is equally important to know how to unhide it so that you can unhide a partition according to your convenience and view its content. The process of un-hiding a partition is very much similar to how we hide it. Please follow the steps below to learn how to unhide an already hidden partition:

Step 1: Launch disk management utility to view all the partitions

Launch the disk management utility in the similar fashion as you launched for hiding the partition. Searching for computer management and using the command prompt are the easiest ways to launch disk management utility.

Step 2: Change the drive letter and path

Once you have launched the disk management utility, you will be able to see a list of all the drives and partitions even if they are hidden. Right click on the partition name that you want to unhide and choose "˜change drive letter and paths' from the context menu. However as the partition is hidden, no drive letter will be visible. Click on "˜add' button to give a name to that partition so that it is visible again.

Step 3: Choose the drive letter that you want to assign

Once you have added the drive, the next step is to assign a drive letter to it. You can either choose a drive letter from the existing partition or mount it on an empty NTFS partition. Click on ok button once done. The chosen partition will be visible again.

Part 3: How to hide partition in Windows 10? (Using command prompt)

You can also use the command prompt in Windows 10 to hide a specific partition on the computer. Follow the steps below to hide a partition in Windows 10 using command prompt:

Step 1: Open command prompt

Open the command prompt by typing cmd in your start menu and then "˜run as administrator'.

Step 2: Run the command

Once you have opened the command prompt, type in the following command to hide the desired partition: mountvol drive letter /D. Here the "˜drive letter' is the name of the drive that you want to hide. /D stands for dismounting the drive or partition.

Part 4: How to unhide a partition in Windows 10?

Windows 10 also offers its users to unhide a partition using command prompt in a similar fashion as they have hidden it. Please follow the steps below to unhide a partition using command prompt in Windows 10:

Step 1: Open command prompt

Open the command prompt as an administrator of the system.

Step 2: Run the following command in command prompt

To show a hidden partition again, type the following command:

mountvol drive letter VolumeName

Here drive letter is the letter you want to assign to the drive that you want to show. To get the volume name, run the command as mountvol /?. You will get a list of volume names that can be hidden. Choose the volume name that you want to unhide and type it exactly in the VolumeName text.

Part 5: How to Recover Lost Data from Partition

With the wrong operations to hide and unhide a partition on Windows will result in unexpected data loss from your parition hard drive,or will cause partition formatted.Under these circumstances,you will need a pritition data recovery software to recover deleted data from hard drive partition.

Wondershare Partition Data Recovery capable of restoring deleted/lost files or formatted partition from hard drive (HDD and SSD), external hard drive, usb flash drive, memory card, digital camera, camcorder, iPod, Music Player and many kinds of mobile devices (Nokia, Blackberry phones and Phones with older Android OS than ICS). While offering the advanced recovery modes like Raw Recovery or Deep Scan Mode, it`s pretty easy to use:

Get the easy steps to recover lost data from Partition.