Whenever you connect an external drive such as external hard disk or USB pen drive, Windows automatically assigns a drive letter to the connected drive. The process of assigning a drive letter is quite simple as Windows progresses through the alphabet from A to Z to assign the available drive letters to the connected device. But there are some letters which are exceptions such as A & B are reserved for floppy drives, whereas the drive letter C can only be used for the drive which has Windows installed on it. Anyway, without wasting any time, let’s see How to Remove or Hide Drive Letter in Windows 10 with the help of the below-listed tutorial.
How to Remove or Hide Drive Letter in Windows 10
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Method 1: How to Remove Drive Letter in Disk Management
1. Press Windows Key + R ka patopato diskmgmt.msc ka pa ki te Enter kia tuwhera Whakahaere Kōpae.
2. Paato matau-i runga i te puku for which you want to remove the drive letter and select Hurihia te Reta Puku me nga Ara.
3. Tīpakohia te reta taraiwa for the particular drive and click on Remove button.
4. pāwhiri Āe to confirm your actions, then close everything.
Method 2: How to Hide Drive Letters in File Explorer
1. Press Windows Key + E to open File Explorer then select this PC from the left-hand window.
2. Now from the ribbon menu, click on Tirohanga, ka turaki i runga Kōwhiringa.
3. Next, switch to the View tab then wewete "Show drive letter".
4. Paatohia te tono, ka whai mai OK.
Method 3: How to Remove Drive Letter in Command Prompt
1. Whakatuwheratia te Tohuaki Whakahau. Ka taea e te kaiwhakamahi te mahi i tenei taahiraa ma te rapu 'cmd' a ka tomo tomo.
2. Type the following command into cmd and hit Enter after each one:
Tuhinga
rārangi rārangi (Note down the number of the volume for which you want to change the drive letter for)
tīpakohia te rōrahi # (Replace the # with the number which you noted above)
remove letter=drive_letter (Replace drive_letter with actual drive letter which you want to use for example: remove letter=H)
3. Once finished, you can close the command prompt.
Method 4: How to Hide Drive Letters using Registry Editor
1. Press Windows Key + R ka patopato regedit ka pa ki te tomo ki te whakatuwhera i te Kaiwhakatika Rēhita.
2. Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer
3. Right-click on Explorer then select Hou> DWORD (32-moka) Uara and name this DWORD as ShowDriveLettersFirst.
4. Pāwhiri-rua i runga i te ShowDriveLettersFirst DWORD and change its value according to:
0 = Show drive letters
2 = Hide drive letters
5. pāwhiri OK then close the Registry Editor.
Manakohia:
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