Windows 10: How to hide drive from explorer without removing drive letter.

Hi. I just installed a small ssd drive to be used by a program as a temp drive. Now that i've set the app to use G: as temp drive, i do not need to interact with the drive again. Set it and forget it.
So how do i hide the drive from explorer without breaking everything ?

In my search i found removing the drive letter which would not work in this case. Also found different apps. But not sure how these work with win10.

:)

 

My Passport is not being detected on my new laptop with Windows 10?

But does it have a Drive letter in Disk management? It must be assigned a drive letter before it will show up and open in Explorer.

Scroll down the drive list in Disk mgmt to look for a drive without drive letter, if that's it then right click to choose a letter, same as shown here for

Drive Letter - Add, Change, or Remove

 

How to Remove Unpopulated Drive Letters

Hello:

Over time I have inserted various USB flash drives and when doing so a new drive letter associated with the thumb drive appears when opening File Explorer. However, long after the flash drives or other devices that create a drive letter are no longer plugged
into the computer, the drive letters remain. For example, when I spawn File Explorer I do see the local drive C: and CD-Rom Drives, but also appearing are the following (these could vary):

(G

(H

(I

(J

And there are others. If I were to now insert a thumb drive a new drive letter is assigned adding more to the list. How do I remove these non-existent drive letter? I did try searching Regedit, but without success.

I appreciate any help and thank you,

EB

 

This registry value will hide the G: drive in Explorer.

Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoDrives"=dword:00000040[/quote] You'll need to restart for it to take effect. The drive will still be fully functional and accessible, just hidden in Explorer.

Typing G: in the Explorer address bar will show the drive.

Hide G Drive.reg

 

Right click Start, select "Disk Management", right click the drive you want, select "Change Drive Letter and Paths" and click "Remove".

 

You'll need to restart for it to take effect. The drive will still be fully functional and accessible, just hidden in Explorer.

Typing G: in the Explorer address bar will show the drive.

Hide G Drive.reg[/quote] 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.

 

That will render his drive inaccessible and uable.

 

You mean after you just edited your post? "Would work" and "would not work" are two very different things. *Tongue

 

I know, i didn't notice it myself before after i had posted. But i think it was pretty clear even with the typo. If i had already found the solution i would've used that instead of asking for a different one. But you're right nonetheless.