What do I add a Mount point?

John Savill

January 8, 2000

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A. Mount points are created using the Disk Administration MMC as follows:

  1. Start the Computer Management MMC snap-in (Start – Programs – Administrative Tools – Computer Management)

  2. Expand the Storage branch and select Disk Management

  3. Right click on the volume you want to create as a mount point and select ‘Change Drive Letter and Path’

  4. Click ‘Add’
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  5. Select a new ‘folder’ for the folder to be mounted as. If you click browse it will only show NTFS 5.0 volumes. Click OK

If you then look in explorer the new mount point will have the icon of a disk butwill have the full content of the disk as shown below

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