mounting a drive in xp

[sayanmaji]

can anyone tell me what is mounting a dirve in xp ?
what is its uses?

[Solomon]

A mounted drive is a drive that is mapped to an empty folder on a volume that uses the NTFS file system. Mounted drives function as any other drives, but they are assigned drive paths instead of drive letters. When you view a mounted drive in Windows Explorer, it appears as a drive icon in the path in which it is mounted. Because mounted drives are not subject to the 26-drive-letter limit for local drives and mapped network connections, use mounted drives when you want to gain access to more than 26 drives on your computer. For example, if you have a CD-ROM drive with the drive letter E, and an NTFS volume with the drive letter F, mount the CD-ROM drive as F:\CD-ROM. You can then free the drive letter E, and gain access to your CD-ROM drive directly by using F:\CD-ROM.

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[Devasis]

Mounting is a process of accessing the storage device i.e. hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share. It can be accessible through the computer's file system. You can access files on the mounted media.

[Gonzo]

To mount drive in windows XP need to follow the steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, and then type compmgmt.msc in the Open box.
   
2. In the left pane, click Disk Management.
   
3. Right-click the partition or volume that you want to mount, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
   
4. Click Add.
   
5. Click Mount in the following empty NTFS folder (if it is not already selected), and then use one of the following steps:
   
   • Type the path to an empty folder on an NTFS volume, and then click OK.
   • Click Browse, locate the empty NTFS folder, click OK, and then click OK.
   • If you have not yet created an empty folder, click Browse, click New Folder to create an empty folder on an NTFS volume, type a name for the new folder, click OK, and then click OK.
   
   
6. Quit the Disk Management snap-in.

[Calvin K]

Use the Disk Management snap-in to mount a drive on a folder on a local volume. The folder in which you mount the drive must be empty, and must be located on a basic or dynamic NTFS volume.