Run batch file with custom drive mappings

Posted by mwolfe02 on Super User See other posts from Super User or by mwolfe02
Published on 2012-12-17T16:18:29Z Indexed on 2012/12/17 17:05 UTC
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I want to create a "mini virtual environment" to run a program. The only difference between my normal environment and the virtual one would be the drive mappings.

  • I have an X: drive mapped to \\some\network\location
  • I have a program myapp.exe that expects the X: drive to be mapped to C:\local\path
  • I need to keep my X: drive mapped to \\some\network\location throughout the process

I would like to be able to run the following batch file and not have it affect the current environment:

subst X: C:\local\path
myapp.exe

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