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Tuesday, 24 July 2012

How to make a Virtual Drive ??



A Virtual Drive is Simply a Folder alongwith some Contents represented like a HardDisk Drive.

It proves to be very useful when we want to arrange our Files into several Drives. It has lots of benefits such as - 

1- No need of partitioning of drives.

2- Navigation is much more easier because "A Virtual Drive can be  accessed from 'My Computer' window".
                                              
  3-No need to run various commands for optimization of harddisks such as  Chkdsk, Scandisk.


A Virtual Drive can be created with the help of "Subst Command" which is an external command and present in almost all Versions of Windows but full fuctionality is only available on the Operating Systems Before Windows Vista.

STEPS -

1- Open "Command Prompt" By typing in 'Cmd' in Run Menu.


2- Type   Subst Drive : Folder Path           

[ Drive: A drive letter which you want to assign to a Virtual Drive]

[ Folder Path: Path of your folder Ex-D:\music]

For example- Suppose we want to make D:\abc as Z: [Virtual Drive]  then the Command which should be executed as follows-

                                         

 

                                            C:/>   Subst Z:  D:\abc 

 

 

PREVIEW

 


Created Virtual Drives vanishes off when you restart your Computer, But we have a solution for it..

Continued......


 

 


 



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