I am trying to create a hardlink on my C drive that points to a file on my D drive. I open up a terminal with Administrator privileges and try the following:
C:\Users\sandro>mklink /H _vimrc D:\sandro-desktop\.vimrc
The error that I get is:
The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive.
When I try a softlink I get the issue that for some reason changes to the link contents aren't reflected on the targeted file.
A hard link is a file system feature that cannot cross a file system boundary. You can't hard link files on C: to D: because they are separate file systems. They might each contain the same type of file sytem (eg. NTFS) but they are separate file systems.
If it's Windows 7, you can use symlinks - Steam Mover does just that.
Try this:
mklink /H "C:\Users\sandro_vimrc" "D:\sandro-desktop\.vimrc"
I'm guessing this has something to do with the filename of the target. Try using quotes around the target link.
I think your link has to be a full path as well.
