{"id":9000,"date":"2017-03-05T01:32:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T01:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2017-03-05T01:32:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T01:32:55","slug":"hide-or-remove-drive-letter-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/hide-or-remove-drive-letter-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Hide or Remove Drive Letter in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to delete a drive letter for a device that is no longer connected? Look for a way to hide all drive letters in Windows Explorer? This tutorial shows you how to hide or remove drive letters in Windows 10, 8 and 7.<\/p>\n

Part 1: Hide Drive Letters<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open File Explorer, click the View<\/strong> tab from the ribbon toolbar and then click Options<\/strong>.\n

    \"ribbon-toolbar\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. In the Folder Options window, select the View<\/strong> tab. Under the Advanced settings, uncheck the “Show drive letters<\/strong>” option and click OK<\/strong>.\n

    \"show-drive-letters\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. You’ll find the drive letters of all your partitions are disappeared.\n

    \"drive-letters-missing\"<\/p>\n

    If you want to restore the drive letters, just repeat the above steps and check the “Show drive letters<\/strong>” option.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Part 2: Remove Drive Letter for Windows Partition<\/strong><\/p>\n

    This method allows you to remove \/ delete drive letter that was assigned to your partition. The partition will be invisible to all your Windows accounts and will continue to exist with its content intact.<\/p>\n

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    1. First, you need to open the Disk Management tool<\/a>. In Windows 10\/8, just press Windows key + X and select Disk Management<\/strong>. If you’re using Windows 7, right-click My Computer<\/em> icon on your desktop and select Manage<\/strong>, you can then find Disk Management in the left pane.<\/li>\n
    2. Right-click the partition you want to remove drive letter, then select Change Drive Letter and Paths<\/strong>.\n

      \"change-drive-letters-and-paths\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    3. In the resulting dialog box, click Remove<\/strong>.\n

      \"remove-drive-letter\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    4. You are asked to confirm the removal of the drive letter. Click Yes<\/strong>.\n

      \"confirm-drive-letter-removal\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    5. The partition is now hidden and it is no longer accessible from the operating system you are currently using. If you assign a drive letter to that partition later, the partition will be visible again and all your files remain intact.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How to delete a drive letter for a device that is no longer connected? Look for a way to hide all drive letters in Windows Explorer? This tutorial shows you how to hide or remove drive letters in Windows 10, 8 and 7. Part 1: Hide Drive Letters Open File Explorer, click the View tab […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894,3,39],"tags":[3294,3295],"class_list":["post-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-hide-drive-letter-in-windows","tag-remove-drive-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9007,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}