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Oct 2009

You don't have to use only drive letters C:, D:, E: and so on for subsequent disk partitions. Windows gives much freedom in managing drive letters and partitions, if you know how to do that.

First, you can change a drive letter for a hard disk partition or removable disk drive. For example, I like to have my DVD as drive X:. To do that:

• Go to Start / Settings / Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Computer Management.
• Navigate to Storage / Disk management.
• Right click on a disk partition or DVD drive.
• Select Change Drive Letter and Paths.
• Use Change button to change drive letter.

Second, you can mount whole partition or drive in an existing, empty directory. To do that:

• Go to Disk management as described above.
• Right click on a disk partition or DVD drive.
• Select Change Drive Letter and Paths.
• Click Add button.
• Select Mount in the following empty NTFS folder.
• Enter a directory to mount the drive in.

And finally, you can do the opposite - mount a directory as a separate drive. The way to do it is quite different, as it requires to use a console command:

subst s: d:\Dir\Subdir

To remove such drive, use the following command:

subst s: /D

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