Hiding a HDD

I want to know how i can hide the icon so that my parents cant get into my slave HDD.
Thanks.

 

I don't know how safe this is or if it will do any damage to the hard disk physically or what not, but theoretically you might be able to remove it's drive letter each time you don't want it to be seen, then add it back when you want to use it.

If you remove the drive letter, you won't see it when you open My Computer or anything, you will see it during boot up, if they know what to look for.

As long as whomever you don't want to see the drive doesn't know how to get into the computer management and assign a drive letter, this should work.

The other option is to assign permissions to it, but that depends if your OS is will support it and setup as one user or multiple users and if you are the only administrator or if everyone is.
Make sense?

 

"Not sure if it's safe", is not good enought for me :|
I want it be safe.

 

won't hide it but you could put permissions on it so only your account can access it.

 

Right, as I said earlier....

"The other option is to assign permissions to it, but that depends if your OS will support it and setup as one user or multiple users and if you are the only administrator or if everyone is"

What are the details about your OS and the users?

 

thats what i get for not reading your whole post. sorry.

 

No prob. I didn't mean to make it seem like that. Just reminding BeerMonkey.

 

You could always just make a folder in the hard drive, put all your data in that one folder, and then hide that so it's not viewable? I know this isn't a solution, but it's an alternative

 

JonJon's solution is what I would recommend as well. It's the simplest and safest regardless of OS. If it doesn't satisfy you then you're just greedy...

 

Here is how to hide your hdd:
1.Open your case.
2.Take out the hdd in question.
3.Close the case.
4.Put the hdd in a cardboard box.
5.Tape this box closed then put that box in a box.
6.Tape this bigger box closed.
7.Put the whole thing in another box.
8.Tape that one shut, too.
9.Put the box in a steel crate.
10.Buy a fingerprint scanner and voice recognition security device.
11.Place a lock with 2 keyholes on the crate's door.
12.Place a combonation lock on that lock.
13.Put the two keys in seperate boxes.
14.Mail these to seperate secret locations.
15.Setup an internet account to have them mailed to you when you need them.
16.Mail the crate to another secret location.
17.Setup another internet account to have this mailed to you when you are ready.
18.Good job! You're done

 

If you're not comfortable with the solution already offered, you might want to look at a partition management program like Partition Magic. Programs like those will usually let you hide and unhide hard drive partitions at will. Only trouble is, you'll have to re-boot to complete either operation.

I've not heard of any real concerns about data safety with software of that kind, provided that you know what you're doing with it. Do remember that there are no 100% guarantees -- especially if you don't take the time to read the documentation. That's particularly important with partition management software.

 

Y do u need to hide this Slave, is there something mummy and daddy would not approve on it. like pr0n

 

No, but they would argue with me why i am using soo much space(music).

"won't hide it but you could put permissions on it so only your account can access it."
That would be great.
How would i do it?

 

I heard you could only do that with windows xp pro? but thats just what i heard, never tried it on home and i dont have xp pro. just my two cents.

 

I do this with the stuff I don't want my kids to see, as some of the jokes and pix my friends send me can be nasty. Otherwise, there is the method Los Alamos uses to protect HDs with nuclear secrets: hide it behind a coffeemaker in the kitchen.