I've no problem in creating junctions and symbolic links through mklink, but can't create hard link using this command. It returns "Access denied", have tried on both Windows 7 and 8.1 on different machines, cmd started with administrative privileges.
D:\>mklink /d /h dirA dirB
Of course dirB exists. Is there something I should do to run this command without error?
Answer
I'm pretty sure you can't create a hard link to a folder, only files. Symbolic links /D and junctions /J would work for folders though.
Also when creating hard links, keep in mind that you cannot create links between 2 different drives (even on the same physical hard drive).
A short explanation from another SU answer:
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 system (eg. NTFS) but they are separate file systems.
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