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    I think i remember sth. like that was possible in XP but for the life of me i cant find, anyone an idea?
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    you can in the disk management part of the computer management control panel change the path of drives, from here you can select to mount a drive in a folder.. a unix sort of way of accessing it.. as for making e.g. d:\documents -> e:\ .. I don't know of any way.
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    • #3
      You mean ... create a partition on your hard drive and mount it to a folder?

      1) Open Disk Management (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management)

      Otion #1 - if the drive already exists (not free space) and you simply want to change the drive mapping to a folder.

      2) Right-click on the partition in the graphic on the bottom of the frame, select Change Drive Letter and Paths....

      3) You can either Add (in which case you'll have a drive letter and a folder) or Change the drive to your desired folder location.

      Option #2 - Free space

      2) Right-click on the free space, select 'New Primary(Logical) Drive...'

      3) Run through the normal setup steps, but when it asks you what drive letter you want to use, instead select 'Mount in the following empty NTFS folder...'. NOTE: the folder must be empty of all content to mount to it.

      4) Chose desired location and done.

      This will only work if you're using NTFS, btw. If you use Dynamic Disk, the names are a little different (Basic volume instead of Primary Drive, etc), but it's the same steps.

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      • #4
        no i want want to do: i have a folder now, lets call it c:\M\U\R\C and i just want to create a shortcut to it .. however not a traditional shortcut but a drive letter shortcut. so that from now on i can click on lets say drive Y: and it will take me to that folder.
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        • #5
          I remember this used to be possible with old versions of MS-DOS years ago. I think the command was SUBST. But that's probably not what you want, sorry...
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          • #6
            Subst still works just fine, the problem is that any halfway-decent program sees right through it.

            There are plenty of "mount a folder as a drive letter" tools, I just can't think of the names of any offhand.

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            • #7
              I got a util at home that does this, can't remember what it is called I'll find out when I get back

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              • #8
                Just share the folder in the normal way and map a drive to it i.e. if you shared it as MyFolder then map a drive to \\MyPC\MyFolder
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                • #9
                  Oooh yes thanks Taz, forgot about that one myself even though I've done it a number of times.

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                  • #10
                    Doesn't work too well on Windows 9x though as it has a habit of trying to map the share before the networking is fully started thus resulting in "The computer could not be found" type errors
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                    • #11
                      You know also I think VDMSound has this built in, as many old DOS games will ONLY run from the root of a drive, or a first-level subfolder.

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                      I would still get screwed

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                      • #12
                        SUBST does exaclty what i need only problem is the drive doesnt appear in My Computer.
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                        • #13
                          Imgtools is the program I was thinking of, it's got a function that will do exactly what you want. <a href="http://www.coujo.de/portal/portal_database.php?action=view&fid=5&cid=1&stylei d=1">You can grab it here...</a>

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