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Heath Nay
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Hello all,
I use Visual Studio at work and many projects are configured to run specifically from build servers, which requires that I run the project from a specific file structure from the D drive.
The long standing way of handling this has been to simply have the project run from your D: hard drive. However in the past few years we have been upgrading to laptops that often have a single drive.
Rather than mess with the partitions on my Dell to get a D: (and assume my size need for it) I created a D: with subst (since there is no CD hardware).
It worked for over a year until recently. Now the drive is inaccessible and demands I insert a disk.
I'm pretty sure a recent update affected this setup though. Now Windows recognizes D: as a (seemingly authentic) CD Drive, complete with icon and all expected messages (i.e. "Insert a disk into Drive D:")
Using subst to display a list of current virtual drives (as documented in /? ) shows no virtual drives.
Using subst d: /d results in "Invalid parameter - D:"
I've gone into diskpart. At the time I presume I had found the partition since it had no volume (and all the other partitions were legitimate and had their expected unmounted volumes)
I deleted successfully the partition, and it doesn't show up in diskpart any longer.
The erroneous D: still lingers. It is haunting my ability to develop.
I am assuming it would take some specific registry manipulation if not more than that. I am not well versed enough to go into it and there doesn't seem to be any specific instances of this problem that I've been able to find.
Please help, and thank you for reading.
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I use Visual Studio at work and many projects are configured to run specifically from build servers, which requires that I run the project from a specific file structure from the D drive.
The long standing way of handling this has been to simply have the project run from your D: hard drive. However in the past few years we have been upgrading to laptops that often have a single drive.
Rather than mess with the partitions on my Dell to get a D: (and assume my size need for it) I created a D: with subst (since there is no CD hardware).
It worked for over a year until recently. Now the drive is inaccessible and demands I insert a disk.
I'm pretty sure a recent update affected this setup though. Now Windows recognizes D: as a (seemingly authentic) CD Drive, complete with icon and all expected messages (i.e. "Insert a disk into Drive D:")
Using subst to display a list of current virtual drives (as documented in /? ) shows no virtual drives.
Using subst d: /d results in "Invalid parameter - D:"
I've gone into diskpart. At the time I presume I had found the partition since it had no volume (and all the other partitions were legitimate and had their expected unmounted volumes)
I deleted successfully the partition, and it doesn't show up in diskpart any longer.
The erroneous D: still lingers. It is haunting my ability to develop.
I am assuming it would take some specific registry manipulation if not more than that. I am not well versed enough to go into it and there doesn't seem to be any specific instances of this problem that I've been able to find.
Please help, and thank you for reading.
More...