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Windows7 hardlink over two different drives

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Problem

I am trying to create a hardlink on my C drive that points to a file on my D drive. I open up a terminal with Administrator privileges and try the following: The error that I get is: The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive. When I try a softlink I get the issue that for some reaso…

Error Output

C:\Users\sandro>mklink /H _vimrc D:\sandro-desktop\.vimrc

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Fix for: Windows7 hardlink over two different drives

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A hard link is a file system feature that cannot cross a file system boundary. You can't hard link files on C: to D: because they are separate file systems. They might each contain the same type of file sytem (eg. NTFS) but they are separate file sy…

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