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When to Use

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Change the Drive Letter or path for Disks

==When to Use==
When you want to change the paths or letters of the drives, especially when you plan on or are already running a large number of disks. Or do not want to see all the drive letters for the pooled drives.

==Steps==
# Follow: [[StableBit_DrivePool_Q7200705|Q7200705]]
# Hold the "'''Windows'''" Key, and press "'''R'''"
# Type '''diskmgmt.msc''' and hit "'''OK'''"
# Right click on the Partition on the drive that you wish to change, and select "Change Drive Letter and Path..."
# You can change the Drive Letter, or mount the drive to a folder, choose which you wish to do.
#* Change the Drive Letter:
#*# To change the drive letter hit "'''Change...'''" and select a new drive letter and hit '''OK'''
#*# It will warn you that "Some programs that rely on drive letters might not run correction. Do you want to continue?" This is okay, so hit '''Yes'''
#*# Note: You may need to reboot before the drive letter is actually changed
#* Mount Drive to folder:
#*# Hit "'''Add...'''".
#*# Choose the "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder:"
#*#* Note: If you already have a Drive Letter for the drive it will only let you choose this option.
#*# Either hit "Browse" and find the folder you want to mount the drive to, or type it into the text box.
#*# Hit '''OK'''
#*# Right Click on the same partition and select "Change Drive Letter and Path..."
#*# Select the Drive Letter, (D:\, E:\, etc) and hit "Remove".
#*# It will warning you that "Users will no longer be able to access files by using this path. Are you sure you want to remove this drive path?". This is okay, so hit '''Yes'''

===Guidelines for Mounting drives to Paths===
A couple of things to note here, is that you can only mount a drive to an empty folder, and that folder must be on an NTFS drive. For the post part, you won't have to worry about that.

Now, how you should mount the drives to paths is a bit more complicated. For simplicity, you should use a single folder to hold all the folders. Such as "C:\DP\". Then create folders inside of "C:\DP\" for each drive you want to mount. For example, if you have 3 internal drives and two external drives, and a USB drive, you could create "I01", "I02", and "I03" for the internal drives, "E01" and "E02" for the external drives and "U01" for the USB drive. This way, the drives are easily identifiable, both if you need to browse the drives, or in Scanner and DrivePool as it lists these "mount paths".

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	A couple of things to note here, is that you can only mount a drive to an empty folder, and that folder must be on an NTFS drive. For the post part, you won't have to worry about that.		A couple of things to note here, is that you can only mount a drive to an empty folder, and that folder must be on an NTFS drive. For the post part, you won't have to worry about that.

−	Now, how you should mount the drives to paths is a bit more complicated. For simplicity, you should use a single folder to hold all the folders. Such as "C:\DP\". Then create folders inside of "C:\DP\" for each drive you want to mount. For example, if you have 3 internal drives and two external drives, and a USB drive, you could create "I01", "I02", and "I03" for the internal drives, "E01" and "E02" for the external drives and "U01" for the USB drive. This way, the drives are easily identifiable, both if you need to browse the drives, or in Scanner and DrivePool as it lists these "mount paths".	+	Now, how you should mount the drives to paths is a bit more complicated. For simplicity, you should use a single folder to hold all the folders. Such as "C:\DrivePool\". Then create folders inside of "C:\DrivePool\" for each drive you want to mount. For example, if you have 3 internal drives and two external drives, and a USB drive, you could create "I01", "I02", and "I03" for the internal drives, "E01" and "E02" for the external drives and "U01" for the USB drive. This way, the drives are easily identifiable, both if you need to browse the drives, or in Scanner and DrivePool as it lists these "mount paths".

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 *You want to keep the drives organized, and not listed in the "Computer"
-While having the drives mounted to a letter or folder isn't necessary for DrivePool to manage the drives, it does make it easier to maintain the drives yourself. Such as running disk checks, or accessing the data on the drive directly.
+While having the drives mounted to a letter or folder isn't necessary for DrivePool to manage the drives, it does make it easier to maintain the drives yourself. Some tasks require that you have the drives mounted to either a letter or a NTFS folder, such as running a disk check (even from command line), or accessing the data yourself.
 ==Steps==

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 *You want to keep the drives organized, and not listed in the "Computer"
-While having the drives mounted to a letter or folder isn't necessary for DrivePool, it does make it significantly easier to maintain the drives yourself. Such as running disk checks, or accessing the data on the drive directly.
+While having the drives mounted to a letter or folder isn't necessary for DrivePool to manage the drives, it does make it easier to maintain the drives yourself. Such as running disk checks, or accessing the data on the drive directly.
 ==Steps==

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 ==When to Use==
-When you have a large number of disks or you want to hide the drives from the "Computer" section, and still retain access the the drive's contents.
+*When you have a large number of disks (Windows limits you to 26 drive letters max); or
-While having the drives mounted to a letter or folder isn't necessary for DrivePool, it does make it significantly easier to maintain the drives yourself (such as running disk checks, or accessing the data on the drive directly).
+While having the drives mounted to a letter or folder isn't necessary for DrivePool, it does make it significantly easier to maintain the drives yourself. Such as running disk checks, or accessing the data on the drive directly.
 ==Steps==

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	When you have a large number of disks or you want to hide the drives from the "Computer" section, and still retain access the the drive's contents.		When you have a large number of disks or you want to hide the drives from the "Computer" section, and still retain access the the drive's contents.

		+	While having the drives mounted to a letter or folder isn't necessary for DrivePool, it does make it significantly easier to maintain the drives yourself (such as running disk checks, or accessing the data on the drive directly).

	==Steps==		==Steps==

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 # Type '''diskmgmt.msc''' and hit "'''OK'''"
 # Right click on the Partition on the drive that you wish to change, and select "Change Drive Letter and Path..."
 # Hit "'''Add...'''".
 # Choose the "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder:"
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 # Either hit "Browse" and find the folder you want to mount the drive to, or type it into the text box.
 # Hit '''OK'''
 ===Guidelines for Mounting drives to Paths===

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-Change the Drive Letter or path for Disks
+Change the Drive Letter to folder path for Disks
 ==When to Use==
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 # Right click on the Partition on the drive that you wish to change, and select "Change Drive Letter and Path..."
 # You can change the Drive Letter, or mount the drive to a folder, choose which you wish to do.
-#* Change the Drive Letter:
+# Hit "'''Add...'''".
-#*# To change the drive letter hit "'''Change...'''" and select a new drive letter and hit '''OK'''
+# Choose the "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder:"
-#*# It will warn you that "Some programs that rely on drive letters might not run correction. Do you want to continue?" This is okay, so hit '''Yes'''
+#* Note: If you already have a Drive Letter for the drive it will only let you choose this option.
-#*# Note: You may need to reboot before the drive letter is actually changed
+# Either hit "Browse" and find the folder you want to mount the drive to, or type it into the text box.
-#* Mount Drive to folder:
+# Hit '''OK'''
-#*# Hit "'''Add...'''".
+# Right Click on the same partition and select "Change Drive Letter and Path..."
-#*# Choose the "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder:"
+# Select the Drive Letter, (D:\, E:\, etc) and hit "Remove".
-#*#* Note: If you already have a Drive Letter for the drive it will only let you choose this option.
+# It will warning you that "Users will no longer be able to access files by using this path. Are you sure you want to remove this drive path?". This is okay, so hit '''Yes'''
 ===Guidelines for Mounting drives to Paths===