In command prompt (CMD) on Windows 11 and Windows 10, we can switch from one drive to another drive by just typing the drive letter name suffixed with the character ‘:’.
For example if you are working in C: drive and if you want to switch to E: drive just type ‘E:’ at command prompt and press ‘Enter‘.
Example:
C:\> E: E:\>
If you want to switch and also move to some particular directory in the new drive then you can use ‘cd’ command with /D switch. For example, to move to E:\dir1 from the above C: drive folder you need to run the below command.
cd /D E:\dir1
This will place you in the E:\dir1 folder. Just doing cd without the /D switch will not change the drive.
Note the backslash after E:. E:\dir1 starts from the root of E:, while E:dir1 is relative to the current directory on E:. Typing just E: switches to that drive’s current directory, which is not necessarily its root.
my external drive appears as local drive and i can’t open it what should i do?
Every time I forget this simple thing…. After trying so many things such as (d:\>, d\\, d:>, d.., d\>,cd d>, etc) i finally get to know its as simple as d:
Thanks a ton!!
thanks
my problem solved!
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