How to designate a folder as a drive D

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I have a 40G drive with 3G used as drive C, Drive D is the CD rom. (I have
redesignated the CD as drive G.) My application requires the presence of a
Drive D hard disk to write data to. How can I create a new folder on C and
have windows 2000 regard it as a new drive D?

I recall that I could do this back in win95/98 but how do I do it in
win2000? The computer is not on a network. There is an ethernet card but no
network connection since the computer is in a remote trailer.

Many thanks,

Ian
 
From a command prompt;

net use D: \\pcname\C$\somepath
or
subst D: C:\somepath

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|I have a 40G drive with 3G used as drive C, Drive D is the CD rom. (I have
| redesignated the CD as drive G.) My application requires the presence of
a
| Drive D hard disk to write data to. How can I create a new folder on C and
| have windows 2000 regard it as a new drive D?
|
| I recall that I could do this back in win95/98 but how do I do it in
| win2000? The computer is not on a network. There is an ethernet card but
no
| network connection since the computer is in a remote trailer.
|
| Many thanks,
|
| Ian
 
Dave, I found that the Subst command was temporary and the drive D
disappeared after a reboot. So I wrote a batch file and invoked it in the run
section of the registry and this fixed the problem.
Am I missing something. Is there some other step I should have taken to make
the subst happen every time?
Thanks

ian
 
No that was correct. subst doesn't survive a boot. From the 'Run' keys or
startup directories.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| Dave, I found that the Subst command was temporary and the drive D
| disappeared after a reboot. So I wrote a batch file and invoked it in the
run
| section of the registry and this fixed the problem.
| Am I missing something. Is there some other step I should have taken to
make
| the subst happen every time?
| Thanks
|
| ian
|
| "Dave Patrick" wrote:
|
| > You're welcome.
| >
| > --
| > Regards,
| >
| > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
| > Microsoft Certified Professional
| > Microsoft MVP [Windows]
| > http://www.microsoft.com/protect
| >
| > "chromian" wrote:
| > | That worked! Thanks a lot. Ian
| >
| >
| >
 
chromian said:
Dave, I found that the Subst command was temporary and the drive D
disappeared after a reboot. So I wrote a batch file and invoked it in the run
section of the registry and this fixed the problem.
Am I missing something. Is there some other step I should have taken to make
the subst happen every time?
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You can make it permanent, survive reboot and even happen before any
user logs in, by adding a value under the registry key
"HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices". The
name of the value should be e.g. D: and the value data should be e.g.
\??\C:\somepath. Note that because it is native paths you need \??\
before the drive letter path.
 
Good one! Thanks Olof.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| You can make it permanent, survive reboot and even happen before any
| user logs in, by adding a value under the registry key
| "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices". The
| name of the value should be e.g. D: and the value data should be e.g.
| \??\C:\somepath. Note that because it is native paths you need \??\
| before the drive letter path.
|
| --
| Olof Lagerkvist sm6xmk
| ICQ: 724451 @ssa.se
| Web: http://here.is/olof
|
 
Thanks. Olof's solutions was elegant and worked great. Ian

chromian said:
Thanks Gentlemen, I will try that also.
Ian

Dave Patrick said:
Good one! Thanks Olof.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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:
| You can make it permanent, survive reboot and even happen before any
| user logs in, by adding a value under the registry key
| "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices". The
| name of the value should be e.g. D: and the value data should be e.g.
| \??\C:\somepath. Note that because it is native paths you need \??\
| before the drive letter path.
|
| --
| Olof Lagerkvist sm6xmk
| ICQ: 724451 @ssa.se
| Web: http://here.is/olof
|
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