Purpose

This page describes the method to Change a drive letter and Map a drive.

Details

Change a drive letter

Follow below process to change the drive letter
1- Click on the "Start" button
2- In the menu, right click on "My computer" and choose "Manage"
3- In the Computer Management window, expand section "Storage" à choose "Disk Management"
4- In the bottom section of the right Panel you'll see the different Media Disk 0, Disk 1 , etc.
5- Access the menu to choose "Change Drive letter and Paths" by
     5.1. Right clicking on the right (white) section when the media in online or
     5.2. Right clicking on the left (gray) section when there is no media
6- In the "Change Drive letter and Paths" dialog box, click on button "change" and select an available letter

Map a network drive

Follow below process to map a network drive
1- Click on the "Start" button
2- In the menu, right click on "My computer" and choose "Map Network Drive"
3- Choose the Drive and target folder and validate
You can also access the "Map Network Drive" option from the "Windows Explorer" window from menu Tools

Map a local drive

Follow below process to map a local repository

SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path]

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.

This means that, for example, to map C:'s root to X: one would use subst X: C:\ at the command line.

Type SUBST with no parameters to display a list of current virtual drives.

To unmap the drive, type in the following command at the command prompt:
SUBST [drive:] /D

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