easyrider Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Is there an option in drive pool to hide drives from view if they are part of the pool? I would like to see just one Drive pool drive not loads of individual drives in windows explorer... Is this an option? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Umfriend Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Couldn't you just remove the drive letters? DP does not need them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 easyrider Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 On 4/20/2020 at 5:40 PM, beatle said: Try this: https://winaero.com/blog/hide-drive-windows-10-file-explorer/ Thanks...that’s a cool little program...would be great to have something like that built into drive pool... A tick box saying hide drive in windows or something... Mesonto 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 beatle Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Try this: https://winaero.com/blog/hide-drive-windows-10-file-explorer/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 easyrider Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 On 4/20/2020 at 7:34 PM, Umfriend said: Couldn't you just remove the drive letters? DP does not need them. I would still like to access the data on the single drives... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Umfriend Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 12 hours ago, easyrider said: I would still like to access the data on the single drives... In that case, remove the drive letters but map the drives to folders within the Pool. I don;t know exactly how that works but it can be done and has been discussed here in the fora. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 You can remove the drive letters and map to folder paths. We actually have a guide on how to do this: https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q4822624 On 4/23/2020 at 9:56 AM, easyrider said: Thanks...that’s a cool little program...would be great to have something like that built into drive pool... It would be, but the only problem is that it would be too easy to break existing configurations. Which is why we don't have the option to do so. easyrider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 easyrider Posted May 8, 2020 Author Share Posted May 8, 2020 On 4/24/2020 at 9:55 PM, Christopher (Drashna) said: You can remove the drive letters and map to folder paths. We actually have a guide on how to do this: https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q4822624 It would be, but the only problem is that it would be too easy to break existing configurations. Which is why we don't have the option to do so. If I mount the drives in the pool to say C:\DrivePool\" and in the future format my windows drive...How to I access the data on the drives? Apologies if this is a noob question....I just dont want to break anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 You'd just remount the drives. The "mount folders" are a "reparse point" that just tell the system to "look at this volume". So the data isn't actually on the C: drive. Since formatting or repartitioning just wipes the C: volume, those pointers are removed. The pooled drives are not touched, at all. Other than having the mount points removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 easyrider Posted May 11, 2020 Author Share Posted May 11, 2020 16 hours ago, Christopher (Drashna) said: You'd just remount the drives. The "mount folders" are a "reparse point" that just tell the system to "look at this volume". So the data isn't actually on the C: drive. Since formatting or repartitioning just wipes the C: volume, those pointers are removed. The pooled drives are not touched, at all. Other than having the mount points removed. Brilliant thanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 welcome! And yeah, it's a really nice way to set up the system. It hides the drives and keeps them accessible, at the same time. easyrider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Is there an option in drive pool to hide drives from view if they are part of the pool?
I would like to see just one Drive pool drive not loads of individual drives in windows explorer...
Is this an option?
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