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I'm planning to format my computer tonight, and I need some sort of reference about this when I get back.
*Replace the bolded "p" in the command prompt entry with a drive letter of your choice.
Important: Do NOT choose a letter that has already been chosen. You can check which ones Windows
has already claimed by going to My Computer and noting all the drives you see. Generally, drives C, A, E, F, and
Q are already taken.
*You can replace the directory, c:\windows, with any existing directory on your hard drive
*Copy the new command prompt entry (ctrl+c)
Once you have copied the entry, go to the command prompt (should already been opened), right click, and
select "Paste".
Posted Image (http://img147.exs.cx/img147/3412/paste5ag.png)
The thing you copied above should appear on the command prompt screen. If you're using an earlier version of
Windows, you should see a little clipboard icon on the command prompt toolbar. Click on the clipboard. Your
command prompt window should look somewhat like the following:
CONSOLE
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Now, you will be able to access files (#) in c:\windows from the P drive (or any letter you chose) by typing
P:\[filename]
Making it Permanent
The problem with virtual drives is that they are not permanent, meaning that if you restart your computer, they will
not be there anymore. Of course, everything has a loophole, so there are ways to get around this. The first method is
to buy a program...with money...that will do the job. The second method is to keep reading this tutorial.
Open Notepad (#)
Copy and paste the following to Notepad:
subst p: "C:\windows"
Of course, you can replace the drive, P:, and the directory, c:\windows, with anything you wish. Remember not
to choose an existing drive and not to choose a non-existing directory.
File -> Save
In the "File name:" box, copy and paste the following:
c:\autoexec.bat
c:\autoexec.bat
regedit
My Computer -> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Run
When your computer is turning on, you should see the command prompt for a few seconds. Ignore this because it will
go away.
Enjoy!
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this is funny, you're a mod, so you should be able to apporve the tut, oh well, what ever, lol.
Well, the rules said something along the lines of "Don't approve your own tutorials. We have to be fair", so I
unapproved it. Thanks for not deleting it, though.
heeheh, anyways, I'm moving this oer to the staff section, y'know, it's off-topic discssion
That was really nice one. I have lots of folders that I access regularly and have to maintain shortcuts... now I can just
use permanent virtual drives..
But does this work in Windows 98 (#) because as u said we need to enter this in cmd, whereas Win 98 does not have
cmd.exe but only command.com
Cheers.
I think entering cmd will work, but if not, "command" works for all versions of Windows
Great tutorial, thought you was going to talk about virtual drives like Daemon, learn something new every day here
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Wow. This will be very helpful since I'm formatting my computer this Sunday. Nice tutorial Snildude.
If you ever want to check what your virtual drives are you can just type "subst" and it will give you a list of all the
(virtual-only) drive letters and paths.
Just wanted to remind you to save your registry settings before you change them in case something goes wrong in the
process you can revert back to the original settings.
And does this work for XP also?
I now have a Work drive (W) and it's so much easier, it feels like a seperate hard drive.
I've also been interested in some Power Macs (#) , which really do have 2 hard drives. But there rather expensive...
Ah, well.
Maybe one day..?
amazing! but umm.......i have a question. Does this work for files? (click on a drive and it opens a file instead of a
folder, thats what i mean )
Thanks!
How To Create Virtual Drives
thanks so much I needed to create a virtual drive for a class and could not find anywhere how to do it, finally I found
this site. Thanks
-reply by shannon
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-question by anukumar
-reply by Demha
This is a great tutorial. It is kind of old though, but still a great tutorial. You also can set up an icon system that can
create a virtual drive, run a program, then delete the virtual drive through MS-DOS commands. I might post a tutorial
on it.
i have managed to create a virtual drive ......easy procedure....but i have a problem...i am not able to rename the drive
i want to rename it as "downloads"...but it shows the name of the drive where the folder of the virtual drive exists...
The folder was present in games drive...and i have created a virtual drive with the folder. The problem is ..the name of
the new virtual drive is also "Games"...even if i have renamed it many times to something else..........
Great tutorial, may come in handy for later use . Good work
-reply by Steven
Little Help
How To Create Virtual Drives
Will this work on windows xp?
When I tried to save my text document (#) as "c:autoexec.Bat" [without quotations] it said I couldn't have :'s or 's in
my file name. Will this affect the working of this virtual drive???
Questions/suggestions
How To Create Virtual Drives
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****The following are suggestions made by an unprofessional and should not be considered official.
--you can save the notepad as any file name as long as it has the .Bat
--If you find the registry thing to complicated you can out it in start up folder: C:Documents and
SettingsJonMichaelStart MenuProgramsStartup
-feedback by Coolness
I did this, but I need to know how to use the virtual drive to read image files. How To Create Virtual Drives
Do I need to download software to use the virtual drive to read image files?
Answer: Yes, you need to install (#) a software that will setup a Virtual Drive on your PC. Then your
virtual CD-Images are inserted virtually in this virtual drive to give you the effect of an real CD inside
a real drive.
Can you please name the theme n location from where 2 download it.
This is an awesome tutorial. I did not even know that it was possible to create virtual drives without a special
program. I've always used Daemon Tools for that.
Thanks for the insider's look. I will still be using D-Tools but regardless, this helps understand the process it goes
through much better.
In terms of the folders, wouldn't it just be easier(if you just want easy access to said folders) to just add a shortcut to
them on the desktop or something?
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