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DrT,

If it is Win7 you will need a path to junction.exe.

I was using the mklink utility included with Win 7. Isn't junction.exe a sysinternals tool?

I was using mklink with the 'd' and 'j' switches. Seemed to work perfectly in my initial tests, except I would have expected something copied to the junction point to appea in the linked folder, but it only works the other way around.

@TAC 109 I would not mind losing the contents of my Games folder at all. It would be the least of my worries if my disk broke. Anyway, I could keep a separate copy of the folders, they do not change much, and each IfW backup would be smaller and faster.

DrT

DrTeeth wrote:
> Isn't junction.exe a sysinternals
> tool?


Yes it is. It is very easy to use.

Some of those tools don't work on Win 7.
The root kit detector is one of those, unfortunately.
Mary

On 5/8/2012 4:28 AM, Brian K wrote:
> DrTeeth wrote:
>> Isn't junction.exe a sysinternals
>> tool?
>
>
> Yes it is. It is very easy to use.
>
>

I have sysinternals integrated with nirlauncher here and had a look at junction.exe. mklink seemed to be more versatile, but some more testing will be in order .

On Mon, 7 May 2012 15:14:20 PDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
Tom Cole disturbed my reverie and
wrote:

>but surely your games can
>be installed to the drive and folder of your choice?

The thing is that they are already installed, and reinstalling is too
much hassle. Some programs do not behave if they are not on the C
drive and I do not want to open that can of worms.
--

Cheers

DrT
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On Tue, 8 May 2012 13:08:47 PDT, DrTeeth wrote:

>On Mon, 7 May 2012 15:14:20 PDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
>Tom Cole
>
> disturbed my reverie and
>wrote:
>
>>but surely your games can
>>be installed to the drive and folder of your choice?
>
>The thing is that they are already installed, and reinstalling is too
>much hassle. Some programs do not behave if they are not on the C
>drive and I do not want to open that can of worms.

Fair enough!

If you want to use a GUI to set up your junction points, there is the
free Junction Link Magic available at http://www.rekenwonder.com/

I experimented with junction points some time ago, and inadvertently
managed to delete some vital folders after getting confused about what
I had set up. I have tended to steer clear of junction points ever
since! (Not that I am suggesting that the same thing could happen to
you!)

Good luck

If you have a partition dedicated to gaming files and still want it on C: you could mount the partition to a folder on C:. It might make it a little more difficult to get things mixed up since the partition wouldn't have a drive letter and there wouldn't be duplicate folders.

"Tom Cole" wrote in message news:2238@public.image...

A I understand it, the 'special' code in the imaging products to
'omit' the page and hibernation files does not in fact do this.
Rather, the files are included as normal but with their contents
replaced with all zeros so that the compression algorithm will reduce
them down to an insignificant size in the image.

On restore, these files would be re-created as they were in the same
locations, but with content of zero, which doesn't matter with these
files as they will be initialised by Windows when next used.


It actually doesn't include the data so that takes no space. Just when
it's access via tbiview/tbimount/ it's all zeros. The image is not file
based, it doesn't just backup files, it backs up everything in use, except
the data areas those files take up are not included (but the directory
entries themselves are), and puts it back the way it was when backed up.

keiooz wrote:
>>
> I am running Win7. What exactly do you mean and where to put it?

Like this...(D:\xcv\rgt is the folder containing junction.exe)

D:\xcv\rgt\junction.exe "C:\Prog........