Sunday, May 25, 2008

How to create Virtual drives in your Computer??



AIM :
You can create Virtual Drives in your Computer. Now you can access your Favorite Folders as a drive in My Computer.

RESULT:
Fool Computer Beginners or your Friends (Non-Expert) , as the drive will show Disk Space of the folder's drive so it seems that the disk space has increased !!

METHOD:
Do The Following :

Start >> Run

Type
cmd and hit Enter

T
his will open "Command Prompt"

Type subst Z: E:\folder and hit Enter key.

→ You can replace Z: with your desired New Drive Letter (Except existing Drive letters)!

→ You can replace E:\folder with the path of your favorite folder !

► Now, type
exit

This creates a new drive ! When you open this , it will open your folder !!!


Amazing naa!!....:)


PROBLEM:
But there's a problem with this trick, i.e on restarting the Computer the Virtual Drive Disappears !!! :(

But here's a solution for this problem too:

We can make a
batch file which will make the drive everytime on startup !

This is how:


Open Notepad.

Type :

@ECHO OFF

subst Z: E:\folder

exit


Then go to File >> Save As...

Name it : Virtual Drive Emulator.bat

Then go to Start >> All Programs >> Startup >>(Right click) >> Open

This open the Startup folder

Paste the Virtual Drive Emulator.bat file here !

That's all , now the drive will automatically be created when ever you start your PC!!......:)



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