How to create secret partition in Windows

You might have heard in news about the investigation reports that the investigators have found a secret partition in the computers that they were investigating.This is supposed to be a very tough task and usually normal computers users does not indulge in the activities like this it might be because that they don't know how to do this or they don't have such a situation to hide the data so secretly.

So if you want to create a secret partition or want to hide a partition in windows then this post is for you.Drives can be hidden using the Registry editor. To open the Windows Registry go to start->run , type regedit and hit enter. Now navigate to the Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \Explorer if you want to hide drives for the current user or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \policies \Explorer if you want to hide them for all users and create a new Dword (right-click free space on the right pane, select New > Dword) and name it NoDrives.

Now you have to deal with the value of this NoDrives.Enter the values from the table below accordingly.

Drive A: - Value 1
Drive B: - Value 2
Drive C: - Value 4
Drive D: - Value 8
Drive E: - Value 16
Drive F: - Value 32
Drive G: - Value 64
Drive H: - Value 128
Drive I: - Value 256

like in order of 2^n where the n is the number of drive in sequence e.g. the number of A is zero and B is one and so on.

You can also hide the multiple drives for this just add their values and put there, like for for drive B and C add 2+4=6 and place 6 in the value of NoDrives.