CREATE YOUR OWN STEALTHY FILE STORAGE DRIVE!

Do you have a windows computer that has only one drive just like the image below? Do you feel the need of creating an additional drive to separate other more important files, rather than just creating a new folder? Or you just want to learn another cool computer stuff but with easy to understand tutorial? Then this post is for you, enjoy reading and learning.

When we buy laptop or PC sometimes we only have one hard drive available inside the windows explorer, you will only see another storage/drive when you plug in a USB storage device like a flashdrive/thumb drive, or when you installed an additional internal hard disk if you are using a desktop computer. Aside from creating a regular folder, did you feel the need of having a separate drive where you can store more important files or let’s say you just want to separate your work-related files from our personal files, or maybe you just wanted to separate your movies or collection of videos? Did you know that you can easily create another drive for personal storage purposes in windows 10? If not, let me show you the steps.

The good thing about this is you can hide it from the sight of other users on the same computer. Most people already know how to reveal hidden files and folders but not too many people who know how to reveal hidden drives. Without further ado, let me show you the steps on how you can create a personal file storage drive and hide it from sight, while you remain to have access to it.

LET'S GO!

1. Click the start button and start typing the command compmgmt.msc, when the compmgmt.msc icon shows up, right-click on it and click run as administrator from the list. This will open up the computer management console window.

   

   
   

2. Shown below is the computer management console, Click Disk Management at the left pane.

   Note: Just ignore the drive with these labels Recovery Partition, EFI System, System Reserved. ) You need to select the drive with a large capacity. Here I am selecting the drive (C:) with 99.45 GB capacity.

   

   After determining which drive you want to shrink. Right-click on it and select Shrink Volume.

3. Once shrinking process is completed, you will be prompted to enter the file size you desired to use.

   

   Note: The value here is MB or Megabytes, if you want to have a 50 Gigabytes Storage you will type 50,000 because 1GB is approximately 1000Megabytes.) Here I typed 40,000 so I can create 40 GB Storage, enough for me to keep a lot of Microsoft office files, lots of MP3 music files and several videos.

   After you input your desired value Click Shrink.

4. Notice you have just created an additional box or a partition with a label “Unallocated”. Right-click on it then select New Simple Volume. Then the partition wizard window will appear to guide you.

   

5. At this point, you will just have to click all the NEXT buttons to the FINISH. 😊 You can refer to the screenshots below.

   

   

   

   

   

6. Now you can close the computer management console, open up Windows Explorer by clicking the yellow colored folder icon at the taskbar.

   
   

   

7. VIOLA! You have just created an additional partition as if you have purchased another hard drive.

   

   Now to make this STEALTH or hidden follow the steps on this link WINDOWS REGISTRY HACK 101 Part 3: File Security this is also my tutorial, it will teach you how to hide drives.

CONGRATULATIONS!

I hope this has been informative for you, and I'd like to thank you for reading.




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