Is there a way to map a local drive letter in a Virtual PC Guest O/S to a host drive?

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Published on 2010-05-13T19:16:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 21:55 UTC
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I have a bunch of programming projects on my P:\ drive (on Windows 7)

I'm now doing some programming within Virtual PC Windows XP Mode and I'd like to "call" that drive, within the Win XP guest, the P: drive. I've mapped drive letter P: to "network" drive on the Host but that goes across the network so it's very slow.

I tried using the SUBST command but it wouldn't take the \tsclients\p as a parameter. Basically, the command line interpreter (is that DOS on Win 7 ??) doesn't recognize that directory (\tsclients\p)

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