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    Any way to make Xp see folder shortcuts as true folders?

    Hi all,

    The title to this might sound odd, but basically I have a bunch of folders split over 2 drives - I want to create shortcuts on one of the drives but have the sortcuts and true folders mixed in, in alphabetical order.

    At present, Windows sees them as shortcuts and assigns them alphabetical order below the alphabetical folders that are on the drive already.

    Any ideas?

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    Hmm tricky.

    Create a third folder which contains only shortcuts to both drives?

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    vote is to raid or JBOD (think i got the letters the right way around) .

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    Mount the second drive as a folder on the first.

    Right click my computer, goto manage computer, then disk management. Then go to the volume you want to be the folder on the other drive and right click it and select change drive letters and paths, then click add and put a destination in the box for Mount in the following empty NTFS folder. Then you can either remove or keep the drive letter.
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    If you dont choose to view them as a 'list' it mixes the folders all together.
    Last edited by Metier9; 18-04-2007 at 03:45 PM.

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    sounds like you want symbolic links

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    Thanks for the info guys, will try to mount the volume via the management tool.

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    sounds like you want symbolic links
    Not really sure what you mean here I'm afraid.

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    On linux, you can create symbolic links - they act like shortcuts to a folder/file location, but the OS sees them as the actual file rather than a short cut.

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    Indeed, and symbolic link support in Windows was only just added in Vista.
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    indeed you can mount a volume as a folder on another drive (and let it have lots of drive letters too), but no tool for creating syn links (thou there are hacky ways!)
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    Hmm. Interesting - cheers for the heads up, looks like one of these will sort me out.

    Ta muchly all.

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