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I am working on migrating data across many disparate drives onto one massive Windows 8 Storage Space.
Problem I have is that many of my programs reference various drive letters to acces their libraries, files, music, movies, etc.
Is there any way I can, for example, have any reference of drives D, E, F, and G all point to the new drive S:?
Yes, use the subst command in the command line: subst NewLetter: OldLetter:\
For example, to assign the current C: drive the letter H: as well: subst H: C:\
See subst /? for more info.
Associates a path with a drive letter.
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.
mklink, but this works just fine.
Oct 28, 2012 at 7:18
C: (the label) to D:. You linked a folder to a drive, not a drive label to a drive. Also, this requires an NTFS partition mounted as C: to put the link on, which defeats the purpose of consolidating drives as in the question (since the whole point is to reduce the number of partitions/combine data on one partition).
You can't run subst as admin, but as a regular user instead, or your "new" drive won't be recognized. Once I ran the "regular" command prompt it worked.
