Lars S. Linnet

So it is finally that time of the year, the time to be glad about all the goodness in the world! But also the most expensive month of the year, all those long days shopping Christmas gifts for the holiday. One thing I am looking forward to is the danish Christmas calendar series for adults, a parody on an old Christmas calendar for kids called “Jullerup færgeby”, instead it’s called “Yallahrup færgeby“.

Are you also one of those that got 1 or 2 big 250+gb hard drives and cant seem to figure out where to place your files and what to do with them? well I just read a danish article about how to split up a single hard drive without actually changing its partitions.

Its quite simple actually, lets say you got the following folder structure on your big harddrive.

c:\documents
c:\games
c:\pictures
c:\movies
c:\programs


this looks kinda like a good structure, but we can do better by typing this command:

Subst w: c:\documents

in your command prompt (”start” -> “run” -> type “cmd” -> press enter).

now you have a “virtual” hard drive (w:\) which is mapped to c:\documents this means that every time you put some data in w:\ it actually ends up in c:\documents.
notice that this is not a real partition and is not a new hard drive in your computer just a folder mapped to look like it.

If you regret creating the virtual hard drive you can delete it by typing this in your command prompt:

Subst w: /d

notice this does not delete your data it simply removes the virtual mapping to the folder, so you can still find your documents in c:\documents.

note: I was unable to change the name of the virtual drive after creating the mapping, but it kept the old name of the original drive, even when i changed the name of the original drive. So changing the name before you create the virtual drive will allow you to give the drive a name in windows.
Update: When rebooting or returning from a hibernation the names of the virtual drive will reset to the current name of the original drive.

Had so much planned for this weekend, should have worked with the Cinema 4D program, should have created a new look for my new site theme, done a little work (taking every number in database A and the remove every number that was also in database B, sounds easy enough, but the catch is that the database A contains 4.9 millions and database B contains 4.1 millions.) and alot of other less important stuff.

I managed to complete the work part, and started a little on the new looks and feel of this page nothing too see yet just created a few ideas, but it will come forward along the week.

So now i’m off for work! See you around