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. Cofa i-Windows Key + R uze uchwetheze diskmgmt.msc kwaye ucofe u-Enter ukuvula Ulawulo lweDiski.
2. Cofa ekunene kwi qhuba for which you want to remove the drive letter and select Guqula ileta yokuqhuba kunye neeNdlela.
3. Khetha ileta yokuqhuba for the particular drive and click on Remove button.
4. nqakraza Ewe 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 Jonga, emva koko ucofe Khetha.
3. Next, switch to the View tab then ukuyiqwalasela "Show drive letter".
4. Cofa u-Apply, ulandelwe ngu Kulungile.
Method 3: How to Remove Drive Letter in Command Prompt
1. Vula i-Command Prompt. Umsebenzisi angenza eli nyathelo ngokukhangela 'cmd' kwaye ucinezela u-Enter.
2. Type the following command into cmd and hit Enter after each one:
diskpart
uluhlu lwevolumu (Note down the number of the volume for which you want to change the drive letter for)
Khetha ivolumu # (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. Cofa i-Windows Key + R uze uchwetheze regedit kwaye ucofe u-Enter ukuvula iRegistry Editor.
2. Yiya kweli qhosha lilandelayo lobhaliso:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer
3. Right-click on Explorer then select Entsha> DWORD (32-bit) Ixabiso and name this DWORD as ShowDriveLettersFirst.
4. Cofa kabini kwi ShowDriveLettersFirst DWORD and change its value according to:
0 = Show drive letters
2 = Hide drive letters
5. nqakraza OK then close the Registry Editor.
Ithethelelwe:
Yiloo nto oyifundileyo ngempumelelo How to Remove or Hide Drive Letter in Windows 10 but if you still have any queries regarding this tutorial then feel free to ask them in the comment’s section.