link folder to a new drive

By | October 1, 2015

We often have problems with customers running out of space on a hard drive. There is a simple solution which works from Windows XP upwards. Take a look at junctions – https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

First download junctions.exe and add it to your system folder so that it can be run from any folder.

If there is an application using the folder simply close the app, move the folder to a new drive and then create a junction link using syntax something like that shown below –
junction “c:\users\sean\google drive” “d:\google drive”

Other useful related utilities –
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html
http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/visual-subst.html