Tuesday 18 December 2018

windows 8 - Can a single volume be assigned multiple drive letters?


I am working on migrating data across many disparate drives onto one massive Windows 8 Storage Space.


Problem I have is that many of my programs reference various drive letters to acces their libraries, files, music, movies, etc.


Is there any way I can, for example, have any reference of drives D, E, F, and G all point to the new drive S:?



Answer



Yes, use the subst command in the command line: subst NewLetter: OldLetter:\


For example, to assign the current C: drive the letter H: as well: subst H: C:\


See subst /? for more info.


Associates a path with a drive letter.

SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path]
SUBST drive1: /D

drive1: Specifies a virtual drive to which you want to assign a path.
[drive2:]path Specifies a physical drive and path you want to assign to
a virtual drive.
/D Deletes a substituted (virtual) drive.

Type SUBST with no parameters to display a list of current virtual drives.

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