Creating a Drive From a Folder on Windows Vista

If you frequently work in a certain folder, you can make it easier by displaying the folder as a drive. The drive will represent your folder. If you access the content of the drive, actually you directly access the content of your folder.

To create a drive from a folder:

- Open Command Prompt. (Click Start button > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt).

- In Command Prompt window, type subst : "" and the press ENTER. The new drive letter must be a letter that hasn't bee used by any drive. For instance, i will create drive Y which represents folder: D:\mp3. So in Command Prompt, i will type subst y: "d:\mp3" and then press ENTER.

- If you want to remove the virtual drive you've created, in Command Prompt window, type subst : /d . For instance, i want to remove the new drive i've just created, so i will type subst y: /d and then press ENTER.

- To exit Command Prompt window, type exit and then press ENTER.

After creating a new virtual drive, you can see the result from Windows Explorer by pressing CTRL+E.

Notes: Your new virtual drive will be automatically removed when you shutdown or log off. So if you want to keep your new virtual drive, you can make a batch file (a file with .bat extension) containing the instructions to make a virtual drive (for example: subst y: "d:\mp3"). Then locate the batch file into Startup folder. (To open the Startup folder, click Start button and then click All Programs. Right-click Startup, and then click Explore).