How to map a path to a drive in windows

ETC Microsoft Windows
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Hi all,

Can anybody explain me about mapping a path to a drive with example?

Thanks

2

A local path or network path?

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents>subst /?
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.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents>H:
The system cannot find the drive specified.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents>subst H: "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner"

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents>H:

H:\>dir
 Volume in drive H is winxp
 Volume Serial Number is FC29-5D06

 Directory of H:\

06/01/2011  09:42 PM    <DIR>          .
06/01/2011  09:42 PM    <DIR>          ..
06/18/2011  01:41 AM    <DIR>          Desktop
03/31/2011  10:08 PM    <DIR>          Favorites
06/25/2011  03:06 PM    <DIR>          My Documents
06/09/2011  07:01 PM    <DIR>          Start Menu
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
              14 Dir(s)  230,540,996,608 bytes free
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Thank you ...

4

Late to the game...but... Two ways to do this easily

  1. Map the drive in Explorer
  2. Check the 'net use' command <there are lots of examples on the net>