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Pretty much as VapechiK says. Here's a how-to list based on your screenshot at the top of this topic: Create a folder, e.g. called "mounts" or "disks" or whatever, in the root of any physical drive that ISN'T your drivepool and IS going to be always present: You might use your boot drive, e.g. c:\mounts You might use a data drive that's always plugged in, e.g. x:\mounts (where "x" is the letter of that drive) Create empty sub-folders inside the folder you created, one for each drive you plan to "hide" (remove the drive letter of): I suggest a naming scheme that makes it easy to know which sub-folder is related to which drive. You might use the drive's serial number, e.g. c:\mounts\12345 You might have a labeller and put your own labels on the actual drives then use that for the name, e.g. c:\mounts\501 Open up Windows Disk Management and for each of the drives: Remove any existing drive letters and mount paths Add a mount path to the matching empty sub-folder you created above. Reboot the PC (doesn't have to be done straight away but will clear up any old file locks etc). That's it. The drives should now still show up in Everything, as sub-folders within the folder you created, and in a normal file explorer window the sub-folder icons should gain a small curved arrow in the bottom-left corner as if they were shortcuts. P.S. And speaking of shortcuts I'm now off on a road trip or four, so access is going to be intermittent at best for the next week.

I'm stubborn, so I had to figure this out myself. Wireshark showed: SMB2 131 Create Response, Error: STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND SMB2 131 Create Response, Error: STATUS_FILE_IS_A_DIRECTORY SMB2 131 GetInfo Response, Error: STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED SMB2 166 Lease Break Notification I thought it might be NTFS permissions, but even after re-applying security settings per DP's KB: https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q5510455 I still had issues. The timer is 30 seconds, adding 5 seconds for the SMB handshake collapse. It's the oplock break via the Lease Break Ack Timer. This MS KB helped: Cannot access shared files or folders on a drive in Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 Per MS (above) to disable SMB2/3 leasing entirely, do this: REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters /v DisableLeasing /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f I didn't need to restart SMB2/3, the change was instant and file lookups and even a simple right-click in Explorer came up instantly. A process that took 8days+ finished in an hour or so Glad to be rid of this problem. Leases are disabled yes, but SMB oplock's are still available.

hi yes, what DaveJ suggested is your best bet. and Shane is correct (as usual). you have (in)effectively mounted your pool drives into a folder on the pool and this is causing Everything to fail and WILL cause other problems down the road. to quote Shane: "Late edit for future readers: DON'T mount them as folders inside the pool drive itself, nor inside a poolpart folder. That risks a recursive loop, which would be bad." 1. on your C (Bears) drive, recreate the D:\DrivePool folder where you mounted your drives 301 302 etc. so you now have C:\DrivePool with EMPTY folders for all your drives that are in the pool. DO NOT try to drag and drop the DrivePool folder on D to C mmm mmm bad idea. just do this manually as you did before. 2. STOP the DrivePool service (win + R, type 'services.msc' find StableBit DrivePool Service and Stop it). 3. go to Disk Management and as in https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q4822624 remount all the drives from D:\DrivePool into the drive folders in C:\DrivePool. windows may/will throw some warnings about the change. ignore them and remount all 16 from D:\DrivePool to C:\DrivePool. 4. reboot now your file explorer should show Bears C:, DrivePool D:, and maybe G X and Y too, idk... enable show hidden files and folders and navigate to C:\DrivePool. doubleclicking any of the drive folders will show the contents of the drive if any and a hidden PoolPart.xxxx folder. these PoolPart folders are where the 'POOL' lives. and this is where/how to access your data from 'outside' the pool. be careful they are not deleted. 5. go to the folder DrivePool on D and delete it. totally unnecessary after the remount from D to C and now it is just a distraction. 6. life is good. some advice: for simplicity's sake, i would rename C:\DrivePool to C:\Mounts or something similar. having your pool and the folder where its drives are mounted with both the same name WILL only confuse someone at some point and bad things could happen. hope this helps cheers