How to hide or unhide a drive for Veritas System Recovery backup

Description

Using Disk Management:

1. Open Windows run prompt and type diskmgmt.msc and click OK to launch Disk Management.
2. Identify the partition that you want to make as hidden. Select that identified partition; right click on option Change Drive Letter and Paths and remove the drive letter. 
3. To unhide the drive, reassign the drive letter. Select a hidden partition, right-click on option Change Drive Letter and Paths and add the drive letter.

Using MountVol System utility:

1. Open Windows command prompt in administrator mode - Search for ‘cmd’ in Windows Start menu, select and right click cmd, and then click on ‘Run as Administrator’.
2. Type command ‘mountvol’ to list all volume name and its mount point. 
3. Identify the mounted volume that you want to make as hidden and make it hidden by running following command. 

mountvol [drive:]path /D

For example: If the mounted volume is on E:\ then to make it hidden type following command – mountvol E: /D

4. To make a partition unhidden, run following command – 

mountvol [drive:]path VolumeName

For example: If the Volume name is \\?\Volume{58e43aaf-0000-0000-0000-70411d000000}\ then type following command –

mountvol E:\\?\Volume{58e43aaf-0000-0000-0000-70411d000000}