This will walk you through the very simple process of setting up a folder from your hard drive as a separate drive. This is useful for often used folders that are annoying to navigate to, as well as tricking a media player into assuming that files from an authored or ripped DVD are in fact currently on a DVD drive. This is a visual application on top of an old command line trick, which works wonderfully.
You must obtain the excellent freeware utility Visual Subst from here:
http://www.ntwind.com/software/utili...ual-subst.html
After installing, run the program and you will find this window:
An explanation of the toolbar from left to right is as follows:
Red cross - Delete selected drive.
Floppy disk - Save drive settings.
Green plus - Add selected path and drive letter to list of drives, making it active.
Drop down menu - Lists available drive letters as choices.
Content box - Will contain the full path of the folder.
Magnifying glass - Opens the folder browse dialogue.
Now, this is a very simple process, so let's get started.
First, we're going to click on the magnifying glass. This will open a standard Windows directory tree, and you must navigate to the folder of your choice.
Next we will choose a drive letter for this folder to have.
Lastly, we will click the green plus to finalize this process.
See? I told you it was simple.
You can optionally click the box near the bottom to have this program set these folders as drives at system startup. This will make sure that when you shut down your computer, your drives will be there when you turn it back on. Visual Subst does not have to continue running for the drives to show up. All you do is open it, set some folders, and close it. It could not get any simpler.
Note: Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to format one of these drives... it'd probably end really, really messy. Remember, it' just a folder. ;)
For more information on where subst came from and what it does, check out the page for the command line subst at Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true
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