Virtual Hard Drives?

[EKKC]

would it be possible to have a folder also show up as a different drive?

for example,

I'd like to use C:\virtual\ as my D:\ drive, so all contents in C:\virtual would show up under D:

i know there's something where you can mount physical drives as a folder within windows, but this is something that is completely the other way around....

any idea?

thanks

 

[ShadowBlade]

just partition?

 

[EKKC]

its actually for my laptop, i dont feel like making an extra partition for it, i just need to test an app for my client. i do have an external hdd with me, that is the D drive that would emulate their environment, but i forgot my ext-hdd yesterday and was very unproductive

 

[scorpmatt]

VMWare or Virtual PC FTW!!

 

[DnetMHZ]

Map a network drive to your self

Map D: to

\\mycomputer\c$\virtual

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
Map a network drive to your self

Map D: to

\\mycomputer\c$\virtual

qft

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
Map a network drive to your self

Map D: to

\\mycomputer\c$\virtual

FTW.

Thats what I do for my apache server. Easier to get to it.

 

[DaveJ]

It's probably easier to use the subst command. From a command line, do "subst x: c:\temp" for example to direct drive X: to the c:\temp directory. To remove the link, do "subst x: /d", minus the quotes of course.

Dave

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: DaveJ
It's probably easier to use the subst command. From a command line, do "subst x: c:\temp" for example to direct drive X: to the c:\temp directory. To remove the link, do "subst x: /d", minus the quotes of course.

Dave

Just tried that. Works great!

 

[Maetryx]

I have two 100GB hard drives mounted as folders of my c: drive (a 250GB drive) in Windows XP.

So the folder c:\100-1\ and c:\100-2\ aren't really folders on my c: drive. They're two other hard drives in my system.

 

Map the folder as a network drive.

 

[EKKC]

thanks all :beer:

 

[PokerGuy]

Originally posted by: Maetryx
I have two 100GB hard drives mounted as folders of my c: drive (a 250GB drive) in Windows XP.

So the folder c:\100-1\ and c:\100-2\ aren't really folders on my c: drive. They're two other hard drives in my system.

So how do you set that up?

 

[Mrfrog840]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
VMWare or Virtual PC FTW!!

you are FTW

 

[newParadigm]

Originally posted by: DaveJ
It's probably easier to use the subst command. From a command line, do "subst x: c:\temp" for example to direct drive X: to the c:\temp directory. To remove the link, do "subst x: /d", minus the quotes of course.

Dave

QFT, more than Net drive to yourself, this is a nice feature of Windoze not too many peeps know about...

 

[EKKC]

this subst command is amazing, i can have many drives mounted to folders in one physical drive. awesome

Pokerguy, for Maetryx's trick, i think he meant he has multiple physical drives mounted as sub-folders within one drive letter, its basically the opposite of what i wanted originally, and you can do that in drive management in windows i think.

 

[Phoenix86]

Also look at mount points (mounting a folder as a volume). I'm not sure what the advantages are as subst works very well for what your doing.

 

[xtknight]

All you gotta do is a symbolic link:

> fsutil hardlink create d:\ c:\virtual

That should work.

Edit: Yeah, subst will work too.

 

[DefRef]

Will this work for mutli-format card readers as well? My 7-in-1 shows as 4 frigging letters when all I use at the moment is the CF slot.

 

[DefRef]

Well?

 

[Phoenix86]

I don't thinks so, this process adds drive letters that point to folders. It doesn't consolidate drive letters.