Help needed to Remove Hard/Symbolic links in XP

[James_p]

Hi,

A few years ago on my dad’s PC I created two dummy drives, Y: and X:, using Hard/Symbolic links (not sure which) to folders within his C: Hard Drive.

To keep it simple I’ll discuss one - Y: is linked to “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Business\Building Projects”

We’ve recently installed a new hard drive in his PC so the plan is to partition it and move the files to their corresponding drives. However the program I used originally to create the links isn’t installed on my dad’s PC anymore and as I haven't used links since I don’t know how to remove the links.
I have downloaded a program called Junction Link Magic and tried to find Hard Link Magic, both look familiar, but I have been unsuccessful.

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

Many Thanks

James

 

[Zarf]

Open up command, type SUBST and hit enter
Should bring up the currently mapped drives if SUBST was used to map the drives. SUBST doesn't persist, so it's probably being invoked at startup, either through a .bat file or in the registry.
Check [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] for any entries with subst in them.

 

[James_p]

Right, when I run SUBST both drives are listed but there is no reference in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run.

Any other ideas?

 

[Zarf]

Something is benig used to start the subst command every boot.
go start -> run -> msconfig -> startup, take a good look and see if there are any likely suspects. It's possibly Hard Link Magic, or a .bat file.

 

[James_p]

Thanks for the help Zarf, you've been a great help.

I've found the program and I can't believe I didn't notice it before. Both drives have now gone.