How to hide drives?

[c_marriott]

I have the 'System Reserved' (D:) drive and 'System' (H:) drive under 'This PC' can I hide these in anyway?

Also, is there anyway to move space from one partition to another? My documents folder is 400GB and my game storage is 500 but I'm only using 70 on my documents partition where as I'm using 300 on my game one.

 

Thanks

[NeatSquidYT]

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/show-hide-a-drive-in-windows

 

If you want to hide a drive in Windows 8 through Disk Management, you need to right-click on My Computer and then click Manage.

In Computer Management Console open Storage by double clicking on it.

Now, double-click on Disk Management Snap-in.

 Disk Management Console opens up and you can see all drives of your PC.

Choose the drive which you want to hide and right click on it. Choose ‘Change Letter and Paths’ and click on Removebutton.

If it asks for confirmation, say ‘Yes’. Now, you cannot see the hidden drive in My Computer.

 

 

[Master Disaster]

Open disc management, right click the drive, select Edit Drive Letter and delete the assigned letter. This will hide it from computer without deleting anything from the drive.

Ninja'd by Squidy

[Guest]

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/show-hide-a-drive-in-windows

 

Then how do you access it? 0.o

[c_marriott]

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/show-hide-a-drive-in-windows

 

 

Open disc management, right click the drive, select Edit Drive Letter and delete the assigned letter. This will hide it from computer without deleting anything from the drive.

Ninja'd by Squidy

 

Says some programs rely on drive letters. Are the system reserved and system used for anything?

[Master Disaster]

Says some programs rely on drive letters. Are the system reserved and system used for anything?

They're used to store boot and restoration data. Hiding them won't affect these functions at all.

[c_marriott]

They're used to store boot and restoration data. Hiding them won't affect these functions at all.

 

Cool, thats that then. Now for the partition space. Anyone know how to do that?

[Master Disaster]

Yeah, in disc management right click the partition and select resize.

I'd recommend getting Easeus Partition Manager Free though, it makes moving and resizing partitions much easier as everything is done in the gui by moving sliders. Makes it easier for someone who isn't entirely sure what they're doing. Remember though, Easeus doesn't change anything anything until you click Apply Operations.

[c_marriott]

Yeah, in disc management right click the partition and select resize.

I'd recommend getting Easeus Partition Manager Free though, it makes moving and resizing partitions much easier as everything is done in the gui by moving sliders. Makes it easier for someone who isn't entirely sure what they're doing. Remember though, Easeus doesn't change anything anything until you click Apply Operations.

 

I'll look into it now, thanks!

[c_marriott]

Ended up using the built in windows tool as the EaseUS one wanted to be activated and I couldn't be bothered to sort that out. Took 200GB out of my documents partition and created a back up partition and added another 100GB to my game partition