using the RD command in XP with mounted drives

[crp]

I have a pc setup with 2 harddrives mounted into directories on a 3rd hard drive.I was cleaning up the empty directories by using the 2 step method of reverse sorting of all the directories to a file and then using the 'for' command to run the RD command on each line.everything seemed to go well , until I noticed that the last command, rd e:\disk1 did not result in the "directory not empty" message.Yepp, the directory was gone . in fact both directories were gone :(I thought the files on the 2 harddrives were lost .After I finished throwing furniture around, I went back to the pc and started up Computer Management to remount the harddrives, as I still needed them mounted for the next night. hmm, I mount the drive and it reports it is half full - what the hay??? so I mounted the other drive and roughly same thing. of course - msWindowsDOS did not recognize that there was a mounted drive under the directory, so when the rd command came along, it only saw an empty directory. which it deleted So when using mounted drives, don't expect the same behavior with sub directories as regular drives.So far I have confirmed the RD and the Defrag commands in XP do not really "see" the mounted files when looking at the moutee home directory.

Edited September 7, 2010 by crp