Can a single volume be assigned multiple drive letters?
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.
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.
Reference: Windows Explorer not recognizing subst'd drives