Overcoming disk size limits on Windows 7

Please use Sysinternals Junction instead as that tool works fine with ModMan.

For example. The command....

junction c:\LockOnFC2-MOD\Movies e:\Movies

...creates a Movies folder in the FC2 root folder on my small but fast system disk that really resides on my huge storage disk E.

PLEASE READ FIRST FOR MOUNT POINT: If you are using ModMan with your SIM, then adding "Mount Point" will stop ModMan from loading. To load ModMan you need to remove the "Mount Points" again.

This is Microsoft’s way to easily solve disk space limits but it has quite a few positive side effects for us gamers. If you for instance want files to be created on a completely other place than the default folder, for example the current limits to change Movies creation place. This technique also works well with the games TEMP folder if you plan to set up a dedicated server.

This guide is given without any responsibility from my side whereas your use of it.

The description from Microsoft to this feature is:

Assign a mount point folder path to a drive

Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

You can use Disk Management to assign a mount-point folder path (rather than a drive letter) to the drive. Mount-point folder paths are available only on empty folders on basic or dynamic NTFS volumes. Backup Operator or Administrator is the minimum membership required.

To assign a mount-point folder path to a drive by using the Windows interface

1. In Disk Manager, right-click the partition or volume where you want to assign the mount-point folder path, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.

2.Do one of the following:

To assign a mount-point folder path, click Add. Click Mount in the following empty NTFS folder, type the path to an empty folder on an NTFS volume, or click Browse to locate it.

To remove the mount-point folder path, click it and then click Remove.*

This works with all versions of LOMAC, FC1, FC2 and DCS series.

How to create a new Movies mount point:

Make sure your “Movies” folder is empty in the DCS A-10C.

Find your way to Windows 7 Disk Management.

Select one disk (if not empty all the folders will appear in your Movies folder also)

Right click the disk where you want to store movies (J: in my example) and select “Change Drive Letter and Paths”. This window should appear:

Now click Add and select the “DCSA10C\Movies” folder as a new mount point for the selected disk and click “OK” when done.

You should now be able to create files in the “DCSA10C\Movies” that will show up on your other disk. In fact all files created in the DCS Movies folder is created on the other disk :D

Enjoy ;)

(HJ)

Hijack,

Thanks for the idea, but I have to warn you this can be a very dangerous thing to do. First whenever you add a drive letter to a temp drive you run the risk of windows reordering your drives including your boot drive. I should know I was on the phone with ASUS for an hour trying to fix it. Thanks for idea, but be careful it's a bear to fix.

Thanks for the idea and layout Hijack, but I'd rather drink turpentine and pee on a bonfire than mess with that. :D

How does the directory appear in the command prompt when you do a 'dir' of the parent (c:\dcs10ac) folder? Junction, symlink, or hardlink?

Well it works fine here for now and I was not explaining to add a mount point to the operating system OS temp folder! The games temp folder.

The disk mounts as a link:

(HJ)

Doing this Disk mapping will prevent ModMan from loading. Updating post one with this crusial info!

Added information on Sysinternals Junction tool in post one.

Very nice. That really is one of the best things with how UNIX systems handle the file tree, and I actually wasn't aware that you could do this in windows. One thought that has struck me would be to throw in an SSD and have the Steam catalog written to it while the rest of steam sits on a mechanical drive, and without having to link the library outside of the standard path.

Rep for you. :)

If any of you are like me and running the operating system Windows and using a SSD disk; this small command can save you quite a lot of diskspace :thumbup: . This command will switch HIBERNATION off and remove the hibernation diskspace occupied by hibernation. Start a command window (CMD) as "Administrator" and run the command

powercfg –H OFF

This will of course disable hibernation.

If you like to switch hibernation on again you start a command window (CMD) as "Administrator" and run the command

powercfg –H ON

This switches HIBERNATION on again but also steals some diskspace.

(HJ)