Re: use a drives guid instead of its letter - where is the drive root ?

"R.Wieser" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-xp,alt.windows7.general
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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