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|    Re: use a drives guid instead of its let    |
|    04 May 24 17:57:28    |
      XPost: alt.windows7.general       From: address@is.invalid              JJ,              > Without additional software, the only way is to assign a drive letter       > to the mount point path, and access the root using the drive letter.       [snip]              I'll just have to remember that using the root of a drive thru a volume guid       from a commandline (cmd.exe) isn't going to happen.              Though I think I should consider myself lucky that it allows me access to       any contents of a subdirectory in such a root - as long as I know its name       ofcourse. :-)              Odd that parts of the commandline accept it, but others do not. :-|              > But in Windows XP, additional software is needed for creating       > junction/symlink, since Windows XP doesn't have any built in tool       > for it              It looks like "mountvol" does (something like?) that (the same program wich       displays all volume guids).              Thanks for the info.              Regards,       Rudy Wieser              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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