Can’t change drive in command prompt

[Zayd]

Hello,

Friends I have a problem here I can’t change the directory to anything else except what is in the C: drive in Windows XP.Any one here to offer some help regarding this

Any helps would be greatly received..
thanks.!!

[Rudra.J]

I went to discover a way to find the solution Typing in "cd /?", I found this.
CD [/D] [drive:][path]
Type CD drive: to display the current directory in the specified drive. Use the /D switch to change current drive in addition to changing current directory for a drive.I tried it and it worked.What the heck?

C:\Documents and Settings\twig>cd d:
D:\

C:\Documents and Settings\twig>cd /d d:

D:\>So I think now we have to use the new syntax to change drives using "cd".

[Dr. V]

Brother,for Changing the drives, just type the letter and colon.e.g. "E:" Changing directories, cd and the name of the directory e.g. "cd e:\name".You can also change directory using relative paths e.g. "cd ..\..\name

[MrChris-]

Hey do you have problems differentiating between / (forward slash) and \ (back slash) like I do? With DOS I always have to remind myself that switches are forward, everything else is backward. Except the internet address. Then it's double forward. But domain / network drive mappings are double backward.What he was referring to up there is using CD to change drive and directory at the same time. You use the "/D" argument with CD to change drive and directory.It's just not relevant, I think, in Unix because it makes it all look like one big drive or makes a drive just appear as a directory.