Is it possible to mount a volume to a custom drive prefix, e.g. "myDrive:\"?

Question

Am I just a dreamer, or does something like this exist?

Answer 1

No, you cannot. It is called a drive letter for a reason.

The command myDrive: gives the error

'myDrive:' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Note that is does not have to be a letter in the traditional sense. You can call your drive [:, for example.

DOS allowed you to use all ASCII characters between A and ` (both inclusive), giving you a total of 32 different drive letters. I am not sure how to access the last 6 on Windows though.

The closest you can get to your "dream" is mounting. For example, you can mount a drive (a partition, actually) in the folder C:\myDrive.

Another "solution" that will work for the Windows Explorer is adding an expandable string value to the registry key

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders.

This is where the actual locations of Desktop, My Music and such are stored.

Answer 2

You can create custom named "drives" using the PowerShell provider system. You would do something like

PS> New-PSDrive -name myDrive -PSProvider FileSystem -Root "F:"

You would then access the files/directories under that same drive like

PS> dir myDrive:\whatever\foo

It wasn't clear from your question if you were in a scripted/console environment or if you wanted to see this in Windows Explorer specifically. Also, I assume you were talking about a filesystem "volume". The PowerShell provider system also supports other kinds of providers.