Back in the old days, there used to be a DOS command that would let you create a drive letter out of thin air. For instance, setting c:\somefolder\subfolder to the letter F:, then all the contents of "subfolder" would appear to be just like drive F:.

But I don't remember the command and I seem to recall it got deprecated sometime around win98 anyway.

Anybody know how to get this done in the newer OS's?

I think you need "subst", thought I've never used it myself!

Gareth

SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path]
SUBST drive1: /D

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.

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

Edit:Cursed, outdrawn again...

It's 'subst'. It still exists. In fact, I've got a Windows service you might want that does this at bootup -- I use it to keep all of my dev tools on P: and my source on S:

I use it all the time to test cd-rom autoplay before I burn the CD. You just dump everthing into a folder, subst the folder to a drive letter, right click on the drive in explorer, and hit autoplay. Works like a champ.

Thanks everyone. Subst was in fact the command I'm talking about. I could have sworn it was removed from later versions of windows. Dunno why I thought that.

Cool, I'll give it a shot. Thanks again!