Mounting is the method by which a volume is made accessible to Windows
Explorer and all your applications. In most cases, each volume has its own
drive letter, such as C: or D:. But a volume can also be accessed through a
folder on any other volume, called a mount point (available on NTFS drives
only). Finally, there can be volumes on your system that aren??™t mounted at
all, such as those with filesystems Vista doesn??™t support and those you don??™t
want to show up in Windows Explorer.
You can change how any volume is mounted, except for the system volume
(the one containing your boot files) and the boot volume (the one on which
Windows is installed).
To change the drive letter of a hard disk volume, right-click the partition
itself in the right side of the Graphical View pane in Disk Management, and
select Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Or, to change the drive letter of a nonfixed disk, such as your DVD drive or
CompactFlash card reader, right-click the disk in the narrow lefthand column,
and select Change Drive Letter and Paths.
In either case, you can choose a new drive letter (e.g., H:) by clicking the
Change button, shown in Figure 5-18. Click Remove if you don??™t want the
drive to show up in Windows Explorer at all. Or, click Add to choose an
empty folder as a mount point (or pick a drive letter where there is none).
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If you select Mount in the following empty NTFS folder,
click Browse to point to an existing, empty folder on a hard
disk that already has a drive letter.
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