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If you want hide some personal data from your colleagues, friends or family members then this post is for you just give it a try and you will be relaxed. The reason for recommending this method is that in the end you can access the drive without opening any software or making it unprotected or watever you did earlier with the help of softwares which makes irratation while accessing data as it is needed to first unlock and then relocking...uuff!!
This trick is very simple and works fine. All you need to have a drive which will be invisible(all of its content)  to others.

Simple 3 Steps--

Step 1: Creating additional partition

...Those who are already ready with there drive can skip this step....

windows 7 and vista users can use shrink space option from disk management utilities to create new volume without repartitioning the hard drive. Windows XP or older users can use third party partition manager utilities to create a new partition, Once you have created the partition, format it and transfer all your data to this new drive.


Step 2: Hiding the drive

Now let’s assume that you have your sensitive data on drive ‘D’ and want to prevent it from showing up in the Windows Explorer. To do this you need to start the Group Policy Editor utility. Click ‘Start Run’ and type ‘Gpedit.msc’ and press [Enter]. Here scroll down to ‘User Configuration Administrative Templates Windows Components Windows Explorer’ on the left pane. Double-click on the ‘Hide these specified drives in My Computer’ on the right pane. In the following window, select ‘Enabled’ and choose the ‘D’ drive from the drop down list under ‘Options’. Apply the settings and exit.

(Note:  Local Group Policy Editor is only available in Professional (Business), Enterprise and Ultimate Editions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Users of Windows 7 or Windows Vista Starter, Home Basic and Home Premium will not get Local Group Policy Editor.)

 
Step 3: Accessing the drive
 
The drive letter ‘D’ is now hidden from Windows Explorer. In order to access this drive in future, all you need is to enter ‘D:’ in the ‘Start Run...’ dialog box nor in the address bar of Windows Explorer. Your drive will be accessible for your work since only you know it exists.
 
 
NOTE- Remember hidden drive is not an encrypted partition. The lists of recently opened files in each program can also expose the hidden drive's existence. Use a utility such as Ccleaner or Window Washer or tune up utilities to wipe out these tracks.