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
Ia mautinoa e fai se mea e toe fa'afo'isia ai ina ne'i iai se mea e tupu.
Method 1: How to Remove Drive Letter in Disk Management
1. Oomi le Windows Key + R ona lolomi lea diskmgmt.msc ma lavea ulufale e tatala Pulea Disk.
2. Taumatau-kiliki i le ave for which you want to remove the drive letter and select Suia le Tusi Avetaavale ma Auala.
3. Filifili le tusi ave taavale for the particular drive and click on Remove button.
4. kiliki ioe 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 Vaʻai, ona kiliki ai lea Filifiliga.
3. Next, switch to the View tab then siaki "Show drive letter".
4. Kiliki Apply, sosoo ai ma le Afaina.
Method 3: How to Remove Drive Letter in Command Prompt
1. Tatala Polokalama Poloaiga. E mafai e le tagata fa'aoga ona faia lenei laasaga e ala i le su'eina 'cmd' ona fai ai lea o le ulufale.
2. Type the following command into cmd and hit Enter after each one:
vavae ese
lisi lisi (Note down the number of the volume for which you want to change the drive letter for)
filifili le numera # (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. Oomi le Windows Key + R ona lolomi lea faʻatonutonu ma kiliki Enter e tatala le Resitala Editor.
2. Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer
3. Right-click on Explorer then select Fou> DWORD (32-sina) Tau and name this DWORD as ShowDriveLettersFirst.
4. Kiliki faalua i le ShowDriveLettersFirst DWORD and change its value according to:
0 = Show drive letters
2 = Hide drive letters
5. kiliki OK then close the Registry Editor.
fautuaina:
O le mea lena ua e a'oa'oina ma le manuia How to Remove or Hide Drive Letter in Windows 10 ae afai o loʻo i ai pea ni au faʻamatalaga e uiga i lenei aʻoaʻoga ona lagona lea o le saoloto e fesili ia i latou i le vaega o faʻamatalaga.