How to I change disk drive in command prompt


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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...

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 :D

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.

294lahc.jpg

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).

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