In a computing environment, we will always face a variety of factors that can compromise the security of our devices. That’s why we must always take steps to make sure everything works the way it should. As for computers, The most vulnerable part is storage disk; Precisely because everything is in it, from programs and systems to the different files we have, it also interferes with system startup.
For this reason, we must know how to provide a security framework, but in this case, other users accessing the computer will not be able to access some parts of the hard drive if it is partitioned by a program and not formatted or hindered traditionally of. We will do this by hiding the drive, so if they can’t see it, there’s nothing they can do. We will also see how to modify the path.
How to prevent others from accessing the drives on your PC?
As mentioned above, the requirement is Prevent others from entering the unit hard drive. Whether it’s because of sensitive information, or because it’s related to computers in a shared workgroup, we need to set limits to avoid surprises. In any case, we can achieve all of this, thereby setting limits.
It allows us to have a layer of security by hiding the disk from other people’s view and accessible only to us, cannot be easily avoided Simply because other people don’t know the hardware exists. We have a few interesting options, but today we’ll discuss how to do it through Disk Manager.
How do I access the Disk Manager of a Windows computer?
As for Disk Manager, it’s important to know how it works and what it does.This will boot the disks, format them, create volumes, assign drive letters, through which we can determine its capacity or sizevarious functions can be implemented in all of this, but this time we will focus on those that provide security.
To open it, we will right-click on the icon in the start menu and select the «Disk Management» option or go to the «This Computer» section and right-click. Then we select «Manage», and in the pop-up window, we select Disk Management.Another way is «Windows + R» and copy «diskmgmt.msc». Any of these options will cause us to execute it.
How to hide storage drive from Windows 10 computer?
Now that we know how to open Disk Manager in Microsoft Windows 10, we move on to see what the options are that allow us to add security to the data stored in it.we can even make specific partitions, Dedicated to system startup and hiding them, we have to add all the layers that can be added to system security.
In this article, we’ll discuss how to change the letters on your computer’s hard drive and how to change its access path. Because if the disk drive is still hidden, but with the same path, someone with this knowledge can access it. For this reason, the route must also be changed.Now let’s see how it’s done.
Delete the letter assigned to the drive
To do this, we go into Disk Manager by any of the methods above, already there, the hard drives available on the computer appear in the window.We now right click on the disk drive whose letter we want to change We select the «Change the letter and access path of the drive» option. A popup window will open giving us several options.
Here we choose «Change», another window will open, we just need to choose a new letter for the selected cell, you should know that this letter should not be assigned to another cell.And these can only be done Change drives instead of partitionsThen we accept that’s it, to hide it you just click delete and don’t assign a drive letter, it’s still there but not visible
Change drive path
To change this path, we need to make the drive not appear as a letter drive, but as a folder, we can do this by mounting it to an NTFS folder.Right-click the drive in Disk Manager and Option to change letters and paths Drive > Add > Mount to the following empty NTFS folder > enter the path > browse and OK. So it’s ready.