Windows 10: hide partiton in explorer without removing the drive letter

is it possible to hide a partiton in explorer without removing the drive letter ?

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Keep File History Working But Remove Drive Letter (Hide in Explorer)

Win10 V1909. Title says it all.
I plug hot swap and image many drives in a day and I am stick of looking at my file history drive in Windows Explorer. Is it possible to remove the drive letter and still keep file history working?
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Can I hide it from explorer without removing the drive letter? (And still allow File History to work)

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Keep File History Working But Remove Drive Letter (Hide in Explorer)

File history won't recognize a drive without a drive letter. At first I thought that you might be able to mount the file history drive to a mount point, but that by itself doesn't work.

However, File History will work with a network share, so I have a kind of crazy idea for a workaround. I tested this and it seems to work.

1) Remove the drive letter from the File History drive and mount it to a mount point instead.

2) Share the drive by creating a network share to it.

3) Configure File History to backup to a network share. Point it to that network share that you just created.

At this point the drive will no longer show up in File Explorer since it does not have a drive letter but file history will still be able to access the drive.

If you need detailed steps for the above please let me know. I'll be happy to provide detailed steps.

If anyone else has other ideas, feel free to jump in.

 

How to hide drive from explorer without removing drive letter.

Thanks, i'll give that a try.

That would not work, as mentioned in the post. Most programs where you can assign a temp drive would not be able to access a drive with no drive letter as you wouldn't be able to select the drive in that programs settings.