Virtual Hard Drive - How ?

jellybeard999 · 20 Aug 2008 at 20:19

I have multiple drives with TV on and again with movies. Someone told me what to google, but I've forgotten what it was

Basically it lets you set multiple drives / folders to a single drive path (virtual).

Any ideas ?

rpstewart · 20 Aug 2008 at 20:21

You can either have a load of shortcuts on the "top level" drive pointing to the various paths on the other disks or you can mount those disks directly onto paths on the top drive rather than independent drive letters.

BigBoy · 20 Aug 2008 at 20:39

Right click on My Computer click Manage goto Disk management and right click on the drive you would like to change select Change Drive Letters and Paths and you can do it all in there

jellybeard999 · 20 Aug 2008 at 20:48

Hmm looking at those, neither will do what im after (i dont think).

I have D:\TV E:\TV and F:\TV
I want a virtual drive G:\ which when clicked on displays all the contents of the above folders.

Hopefully that makes sense and clears it up ?

peterattheboro · 21 Aug 2008 at 10:34

jellybeard999 said:
Hmm looking at those, neither will do what im after (i dont think).

I have D:\TV E:\TV and F:\TV
I want a virtual drive G:\ which when clicked on displays all the contents of the above folders.

Hopefully that makes sense and clears it up ?

Can you map 3 seperate drives into one drive?

Share each drive and then you should have the option of mapping them.

jellybeard999 · 21 Aug 2008 at 20:01

That doesnt seem to suit either

Can map them individually as network drives, but they're local, so thats just duplicating them.

Cobertizo · 21 Aug 2008 at 20:48

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/...on-volume-or-drive-as-folder-path-in-windows/

Or http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784653.aspx

Or try RAID-0.

jellybeard999 · 21 Aug 2008 at 21:59

Cobertizo said:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/...on-volume-or-drive-as-folder-path-in-windows/

Or http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784653.aspx

Or try RAID-0.

Thanks, but those don't address the query, nor is RAID relevant :confused:

I want something along the lines of DaemonTools for hard drives, which can take multiple paths and mount as one single virtual drive.

Cobertizo · 21 Aug 2008 at 22:25

They do address the query, depending on what exactly your end goal is.

But are you using Vista? If so, you could try using a Search Folder... (Stored in a disk image mounted via Daemon Tools if you like, I guess.)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/search-folders.aspx

BigBoy · 21 Aug 2008 at 22:50

Code:

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.

Its old but it works only thing is it will not do multiple folders/drives to one drive but it will create a virtual disk drive.

IAmATeaf · 22 Aug 2008 at 14:55

jellybeard999 said:
Hmm looking at those, neither will do what im after (i dont think).

I have D:\TV E:\TV and F:\TV
I want a virtual drive G:\ which when clicked on displays all the contents of the above folders.

Hopefully that makes sense and clears it up ?

The only easy way I can think of to do this is to get rid of the drive letters for each drive and then mount that volume under a subfolder so you'd have a top level folder with D-TV, E-TV, F-TV the contents of which would be the contents of each individual volume.