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Using mklink /h results in "Access is denied."

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From command prompt with Administrator privilages: I'm on Vista x64. Using or instead of works. What's the problem? Related: Access is denied error, when I mklink on Windows 7.

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c:\>mklink /h c:\dirA c:\Users\Piotr\dirB
Access is denied.

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Hard links can only be used for files, not directories. References: MSDN: Hard Links and Junctions, <1>, and <2>

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Using mklink /h results in "Access is denied."

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