how to hide drives using dos

Hello guys , we all wish to make our data more personal and secure from others .for this some times we have to make our partition hidden , for this purpose there are many softwares are in market but those are for computer illiterates . if you are a good with your computer skills then hiding partition drives are most simple thing to do in windows in very few time u can have mastery over it there are following steps given to hide your drives using dos . just follow the following steps and secure your data for free :

1. open the dos window or command prompt. goto run type cmd and then press enter.
2. type diskpart at command prompt. After this at dos u will get written diskpart>
3. type list volume to see your volume number.
note :on different computers the volume no. may be different so carefully watch the volume no.
4. now just select volume by using select volume command for e.g. select volume 2
5. now you have to only wright remove . and your drive gets hided.it might possible that your system requires restart after this, don't worry about that.
6. if you want to unhide your drive just follow above 4 steps as it is and after selecting volume type assign. and your drive gets unhided .
these are some simple and short steps to make your drive hiden .
Things to remember:
1. this methods only applicable to windows operating system.
2. you directly run the diskpart by typing it into run