How do you map or alias a local path to a drive letter in Windows 8?

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00:00 How Do You Map Or Alias A Local Path To A Drive Letter In Windows 8?
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00:43 Answer 2 Score 6
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Score 14

Doesn't subst G: C:\Some Dir work any more in Win8?

Of course, you should be able to accomplish the same via Win Explorer as well:

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But this works only in case of a Network Path and not a Local one.

ANSWER 2

Score 6

You will first need to share the folder, then you can map it in explorer as in Karan's answer or use

net use Z: \\yourpcname\foldername

ANSWER 3

Score 6

you need use vSubst utility to acheive the same.

download vSubst utility from below URL : http://home.datacomm.ch/t.bigler/s04.html)