One of the visitors of SI, Joseph, recently asked in a comment to the post “How to disable drive access from registry” how he could disable  access to a drive even for programs like Ashampoo which managed to override the registry trick. The method to be used in such situations is explained here. In one of the previous posts we had discussed how to Manage disk drives using [intlink id="how-to-view-all-drives-disk-management-under-windows" type="post"]Disk drive management console Object of Windows[/intlink]. We can use the Management Console to disable access to select drives also.

This very same method can be used to change the drive letter of any drive also.

1. Run (WIN + R) “diskmgmt.msc” to open te Windows Disk Management Console.

WIN+R diskmgmt.msc open Disk Management Console Object

2. Right Clcik on the desired drive and Select “Change Drive Letter and Paths..“

Select Drive and Right Clcik -> Change Drive Letter and Paths..

3. Remove the drive Letter and Click OK.

Remove the drive letter and click OK on the warning message.

You can use the same process to later access the drive. Just select the unnamed drive from the console and Use the Add drive letter function to later add a drive letter and make it accessible all across the system. This is really easy to do and probably most of your friends would never find out.