SetVolumeMountPointW function (winbase.h)

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02/09/2023

Associates a volume with a drive letter or a directory on another volume.

Syntax

BOOL SetVolumeMountPointW(
  [in] LPCWSTR lpszVolumeMountPoint,
  [in] LPCWSTR lpszVolumeName
);

Parameters

[in] lpszVolumeMountPoint

The user-mode path to be associated with the volume. This may be a drive letter (for example, "X:\") or a directory on another volume (for example, "Y:\MountX"). The string must end with a trailing backslash ('').

[in] lpszVolumeName

A volume GUID path for the volume. This string must be of the form "\\?\Volume{GUID}\" where GUID is a GUID that identifies the volume. The "\\?\" turns off path parsing and is ignored as part of the path, as discussed in Naming a Volume.

Return value

If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.

If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

If the lpszVolumeMountPoint parameter contains a path to a mounted folder, GetLastError returns ERROR_DIR_NOT_EMPTY, even if the directory is empty.

Remarks

When this function is used to associate a volume with a directory on another volume, the associated directory is called a mounted folder.

It is an error to associate a volume with a directory that has any files or subdirectories in it. This error occurs for system and hidden directories as well as other directories, and it occurs for system and hidden files.

When mounted folders are created on a volume on a clustered disk, they may be deleted unexpectedly under certain circumstances. For information on how to create and configure mounted folders to ensure that this does not happen, see Cluster Disk and Drive Connection Problems.

IIn Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, this function is supported by the following technologies.

Technology	Supported
Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 protocol	No
SMB 3.0 Transparent Failover (TFO)	No
SMB 3.0 with Scale-out File Shares (SO)	No
Cluster Shared Volume File System (CsvFS)	No
Resilient File System (ReFS)	No

SMB does not support volume management functions. For CsvFS a new mount point will not be replicated to the other nodes on the cluster.

Examples

For an example, see Creating a Mounted Folder.

Note

The winbase.h header defines SetVolumeMountPoint as an alias which automatically selects the ANSI or Unicode version of this function based on the definition of the UNICODE preprocessor constant. Mixing usage of the encoding-neutral alias with code that not encoding-neutral can lead to mismatches that result in compilation or runtime errors. For more information, see Conventions for Function Prototypes.

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows XP [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2003 [desktop apps only]
Target Platform	Windows
Header	winbase.h (include Windows.h)
Library	Kernel32.lib
DLL	Kernel32.dll