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I've read about how to change a drivepool's drive letter. I'm not sure if what I want to do is the same thing or not.

I have a pool of 4 drives, none of which has its own drive letter, and all of which are defined by a Windows drive path, e.g. Drivepool\Disk1
On drive C I have 4 folders called Disk1 thru Disk 4, and in each of these folders is the PoolPart folder as created by Drivepool.
Because I now want to create a 2nd pool, I'd like to change this to C:\Pool1\Disk1, and then create my 2nd pool in C:\Pool2.
I have no difficulty in setting this up using Windows Disk Management. But I'm uncertain what implications, if any, this may have for Drivepool, and what I must do to resolve them.

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That's fine. The thing to avoid is any risk of recursion - e.g. if you've got a drive mounted as a path on another drive, never add the latter drive to a pool that includes the former drive. So in this case you should make sure you never add your C:\ drive as a disk to either pool.

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Can confirm that there is no issue with mounting the drives to a folder path.  

StableBit DrivePool doesn't use the drive letter or path, but uses the volume ID via the UNC path (eg, what you see when you run "mountvol" in a command prompt, the "\\?\Volume{GUID]\" path). 

 

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