Can a drive be in a folder? Can a folder be a drive?
The problem is this: In the process of "moving" all of my Windows 7 Library Folders to their new location on Drive E (for instance), the Documents folder is showing Drive E as it's location. That would seem ok but instead of a "My Documents" folder in the Documents tree, I have Drive E. When I click the Properties tab on this drive/folder, I get what appears to be a normal drive properties display with the exception that this drive suddenly has a location tab. When I click on this location tab, it gives me the usual choices of move . ., find target, etc. When I try to "move" its contents (all my documents and document folders) to a folder on the drive I created called "My Documents," I get an error message that says "Can not redirect parent into decendant; the specified path is invalid." Understandable. Bit, bottom line is, somehow, I have made a folder out of a drive or made a drive into a folder and now I need to somehow remap the drive such that I can place all my files and folders into a "proper" My Documents folder. I've tried alot of things, alot of times to no effect. ANY IDEAS ON THIS ONE?
March 30th, 2010 10:08am

A drive can be connected to a "mount point" junction in the NTFS file system. While I haven't the time right now to reproduce exactly what you've done, I suspect you (and the Windows 7 Library management facilities) have managed to create a mount point junction to your other hard drive. I have only experimented briefly with this facility myself, but its advantage seems to be the possibility of having more than 26 physical drives in a system (e.g., a large server). Perhaps the Library implementers found another use for it. Quite a bit of information is available on the web via searches for "NTFS mount point" for example, or "NTFS junction". -Noel
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March 30th, 2010 9:08pm

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