Is there a simple way to hide a hard drive?

Vista Ultimate 64bit

Is there a way to hide drives in Vista? I see aftermarket utilities, but I'd
rather discover a native Vista way to do it. Back in the 'old days', I used
a third party utility to password protect a drive and was never able to
access it again - IM

In Disk Management, unassigned a drive letter.

take a look at TrueCrypt. I've been using it on XP and Vista machines
to store my password files. It's free and I've not had moment's problem
with it.

[Cinmute]

If you have sensitive or important data stored on a particular disk drive that you don’t want anyone to see, a great way to hide it is to

remove the drive letter assigned to a particular mounted volume. With Windows , you can achieve this easily using nothing more

than the Command Prompt. Here's how:

- Click Start -> Run (This brings up the Run dialog box)
- Type cmd and press Enter (This brings up the Windows Command Prompt)
- Type diskpart in the command prompt and press Enter (This launches the Diskpart utility within the Command Prompt window)
- Now type list volume (This displays a list of all mounted volumes on your computer and their associated drive letters)

- Using the above picture as reference, if, for example, you would like to hide drive E, type select volume 6
- Now type remove letter E (Note: This sometime requires a reboot)
Diskpart will now remove the drive letter. The drive will no longer be available via Windows Explorer or My Computer.

Don’t worry though, your data remains safe!

Now, should you want to unhide the drive and make it accessible again, just repeat the above process. But instead of typing remove

letter E, type assign letter E

You better hope that your wife does not visit this newsgroup otherwise you
have just told her where you hide your porn!