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While partitions and volumes can be assigned a drive letter, D: through Z:,

they can also be mounted as a folder on another drive, also known as a mount

point. This enables you to use your existing folders to store more data than

can fit on a single drive or partition/volume (see Figure 9-47).

Figure 9-47 Mounting a drive as a folder

Imagine you use your Documents folder on a Windows machine to store

your digital photos. As your collection grows, you realize your current 500-

GB hard drive is running out of space. You’re willing to buy another hard

drive, but you have a great organizational structure in your existing

Documents folder and you don’t want to lose that. You don’t have to move

everything to the new hard drive, either.

After you install the new hard drive, you can mount the primary partition

(or logical drive) as a folder within the existing Documents folder on your C:

drive (for example, C:\Users\Mike\My Photos). At this point the drive

doesn’t have a letter (though you could add one later, if you wanted). To use

the new drive, just drop your files into the My Photos folder. They’ll be

stored on the second hard drive, not the original 500-GB drive (see Figure 9-

48). Amazing!

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