Ms-dos 'join' Command

[Crossy]

OK, many moons ago MS-DOS supported a command allowing several drives to effectively function as one.

JOIN made a particular drive work as a subdirectory off another so the two drives appeared to be a single, larger drive.

I'd like to do the same thing with Windows, my reasons are obscure so bear with me. I DON'T want a striped array, RAID or any other system that relies on all the drives being available I just want to access a number of (optical) drives from a single drive letter.

Any bright ideas??

[mopoke]

OK, many moons ago MS-DOS supported a command allowing several drives to effectively function as one.

JOIN made a particular drive work as a subdirectory off another so the two drives appeared to be a single, larger drive.

I'm not sure which version of Windows you're using, but with my Windows XP installation, I can use MountVol to achieve this.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=205524

and http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...l.mspx?mfr=true

describe the technique.

[Crossy]

OK, many moons ago MS-DOS supported a command allowing several drives to effectively function as one.

JOIN made a particular drive work as a subdirectory off another so the two drives appeared to be a single, larger drive.

I'm not sure which version of Windows you're using, but with my Windows XP installation, I can use MountVol to achieve this.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=205524

and http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...l.mspx?mfr=true

describe the technique.

Sorry, forgot to mention I'm using W2k-Pro, looks like this will do what I need. Cheers for the info.

I'll let you know how I got on

[Crossy]

I'm not sure which version of Windows you're using, but with my Windows XP installation, I can use MountVol to achieve this.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=205524

and http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...l.mspx?mfr=true

describe the technique.

Works like a charm, even survives a reboot

PM me next time you're in BKK, I owe you a beer