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[Divardo]

I was attempting to create a symbolic link in a folder on the d drive but can't seem to be able to change on to that drive in the command prompt. I was able to do it on the c drive as a test run using cd and the destination, but not having much luck with changing drives.


Any ideas...

[Volatile]

works to just type D: at prompt

cd D: just shows you current dir

[BGM]

type 'D:' and hit enter

obviously without the quotes

[SHoTTa35]

wait, you mean like going from C drive to D drive?

EG:

You'll be here:
C:\>

and you want to be:
D:\>


Hehe - i feel so old for knowing that... seems like the other guys already replied before i got a chance to hit submit... walked away

[MillionVoltss]

A: would take you to floppy, C: would be first hard disk.
cd windows would take you to the directory windows on the current drive
cd\ will take u back a folder
DIR /p will list the contents of the directory in a page
and HELP.

[ManMountain]

For a true symbolic link, drop to a command prompt and try along the lines of:

cd \
mkdir d:\DivardoWasHere
mklink /d divardo d:\DivardoWasHere

Accessing divardo on C: via command line or in Windows Explorer points to D:\DivardoWasHere.


In the above screenshot, you can clearly see the symbolic link name "mm" redirects to a folder on another drive.

Of course, this also applies to moving or copying files. For example if you where at the command line @ root of C: and had a ton of .jpg files in C:\Pictures you could simply type copy c:\Pictures\*.jpg \divardo . Result would be all files would actually be copied to D:\DivardoWasHere.

(Edit: To remove the symbolic link, from root of C:\, you would enter rmdir \divardo and to wipe the D:\DivardoWasHere you would enter rmdir /s d:\DivardoWasHere).

Edited by ManMountain, 21 February 2008 - 03:22.