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Fidel
Asked: 2017-03-18 08:01:01 +0800 CST

True virtual hard drive (using drivers)

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We have a legacy application that can only read and write to physical drives. If we point it to a mapped network drive, it does not work. I've tried subst, mklink and net use to no avail.

Is there a program that can create a virtual hard drive on Windows 10 (using drivers)? Then, allow me to specify where this virtual drive should get its data from? In this case, a networked drive.

Edit: iSCSI Target by Daemon came pretty close, but can't seem to provide an iSCSI target that is backed by a network drive.

Edit 2: This question proses the question in a different way. It contains useful information.

Edit 3: Haha, oh no. THE man himself suggests it's a bad idea:

The next time someone tries to sell you a programming product that lets you access network resources the same was as you access local resources, run full speed in the opposite direction.

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1 Answers

  1. Why doesn't the Daemon target with SPTI/SPTD fit in your case?

    As an alternative you can take a look at StarWind Free for example, in this case you just need to create new device on top of your smb drive and share it through iSCSI.

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