If you’re like most people, you probably have a lot of files and folders scattered around your computer. You might have a folder for your photos, another for your music, and another for your videos. But what if you want to put all of these files in one place so that you can access them easily? There are a few ways to do this, but the best way is to create a folder on your computer called “folders.” Then, in that folder, create a new file called “files.” This will be the name of the new folder on your computer where all of your files will live. Now that you’ve created a new folder on your computer called “folders,” it’s time to mount the hard drive that contains all of those files. To do this, open up Windows Explorer and go to the “folder” where you’ve created the “files” folder. Then click on the “mount” button at the top of Windows Explorer. When Mounting Your Hard Drive as a Folder:

  1. Choose which hard drive(s) you want to mount: If you’re mounting your hard drive as a single volume (for example, if it’s an external hard drive), then just select that option and click on OK. If you’re mounting your hard drive as multiple volumes (for example, if it’s an SSD or HD), then make sure each volume has been selected before clicking on OK. 2) Select which folders will be included in the newFolder: If you’re mounting your hard drive as a single volume (for example, if it’s an external hard drive), then just select everything except for the “files” folder and click on OK. If you’re mounting your hard drive as multiple volumes (for example, if it’s an SSD or HD), then make sure each volume has been selected before clicking on OK. 3) Click on Mount: This will start up

Getting a new drive is always exiting, but having 6 or 7 drives show up in My Computer isnt always ideal. Using this trick you can make your drives appear as folders on a another drive. Logically it will look like its one drive but any files in that folder will physically be on another drive.

Note: This will only work with NTFS formatted drives.

Press the Windows Key and R to bring up a run box, type diskmgmt.msc and press enter.

Note: Depending on if the drive has been initialized or not you may or may not have a volume created, so we are going to assume you do have a volume. If you have any data on that drive NOW would be a good time to back it up.

When the disk management console loads we are first going to have to delete all the volumes on the disk, so right click on the volumes and select delete volume from the context menu. This should be done for all the volumes on the drive.

You will now be prompted if you are sure if you want to go through with your actions select yes to continue.

Now right click on the drive and select new simple volume from the context menu.

This will kick off the wizard we all know and love, to create a new volume. Click next to continue.

Keep the default size to use the whole drive.

This is where we will choose to make the drive a folder by choosing the unselected radio button that reads Mount in the following NTFS folder. Now hit the browse button and select a empty folder on an NTFS drive where you can use as a mount point for the drive.

You can just accept the default on this screen and click next.

Now you can go ahead and click on the finish on the last screen.

Now your drive will appear as a normal folder on the drive you selected except the files will be on a separate physical disk.