Happy Computing: "Hard Disk Control - Ensuring Safety Of Data"

Happy Computing: "Hard Disk Control - Ensuring Safety Of Data": "To Hide Files and Folders what you do......Just Hide the folder or the file.....or may use some folder lock softwares but do they provide ma..."

"Hard Disk Control - Ensuring Safety Of Data"

To Hide Files and Folders what you do......Just Hide the folder or the file.....or may use some folder lock softwares but do they provide maximum security.....??? Not at all.
What if I provide you an idea to hide your drives from the eyes of others...Or Restrict the access to Drives Completely...?? It follows as under...
1.You can easily hide the partition of hard disk from the eyes of others...

For this, we have a windows utility named Group Editor Policy.

Go to Start > Run > gpedit.msc

It will open the group Editor.

 Now in the left side click on :

Server Configuration > Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Wiondows Explorer

Now in the right column look for "Hide These Specified Drives In My Computer" will appear.

Right Click on it and go to properties (Or Edit in windows 7).

Click on Enabled. Here you will see some options. the first one follows Restrict All Drives. Applying it will hide all your Drives (A,B,C,D,..)
Using These options you can hide one or more drives.

On Hiding , now these drives will not appear in My Computer or Windows Explorer.

Remember It has merely stopped the drive from viewing. However one can access the contents from Command Line.

You Can Also Restrict Complete Access to Drives by using "Restrict Access To Drives From My Computer" option. Now Drives can not be used till they return to privious settings.

To Allow access again , Open the Group Editor and Make Not Configured in place of enabled and apply it at the corresponding place explained above.

The Above information is fully checked and working.

Errors and comments if any are always most welcome.!!

Thanks And Regards..

Shakta Shiromani alias Skand Kumar Thakur