[gnuwin32 - Help] RE: Absolute path names in Windows tar?

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By: tehtarget

The only way I have found, to make this happen is with the -C argument.

change your current path to your D:/ then use

tar -cvf test.tar -C //./X:/Source/Folder ./

And works the same way when extracting, change your path to the drive the archive
is on and then use the same command syntex.

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