Can not mount volume at an empty volume

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I am running W2K Server SP4. We are running desperately low on disk space so
I have installed a new hardware Raid1. I want to move a 100 GB folder to
this new R1 but I can not have the path change. When I try to mount this new
volume as an empty folder using disk management, it comes back with the error:

"The path can not be used for creating a drive path. Possible reasons are
that the directory is not present or the directory is already a drive path to
some other volume"

This does work if I create it on the root of the drive but if I drill down 3
folders deep where I need the mount point it fails.

Any ideas? Thanks.
 
Anthony C said:
I am running W2K Server SP4. We are running desperately low on disk space so
I have installed a new hardware Raid1. I want to move a 100 GB folder to
this new R1 but I can not have the path change. When I try to mount this new
volume as an empty folder using disk management, it comes back with the error:

"The path can not be used for creating a drive path. Possible reasons are
that the directory is not present or the directory is already a drive path to
some other volume"

This does work if I create it on the root of the drive but if I drill down 3
folders deep where I need the mount point it fails.

Any ideas? Thanks.
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I had no problem with these commands:

md c:\test\one\two
mountvol c:\test\one\two \\?\Volume{55cc7243-6397-11da-bdfd-806d6172696f}\
 
I showed you my commands, now let's see yours,
preferably embedded in a batch file!
 
Here is the command line:

C:\Documents and Settings\administrator.ROYALL>mountvol
e:\is\production\2010 \
?\Volume{877bc3a0-5d32-11db-a825-00018007748d}\
The parameter is incorrect.

Your commands work in a test enviornment but not on the server I need it to
work on. Thanks again.
 
You omitted one of the leading backslashes. Instead of writing

mountvol e:\is\production\2010 \?\Volume{87 . . . you must write
mountvol e:\is\production\2010 \\?\Volume{87 . . .

The volume name must agree literally with output generated
by the command

mountvol {Enter}
 
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