>>>>I believe you must change the dirve letter first, then the directory
>>>>
>>>>D:
>>>>cd\directoryname
>>>
>>>Belief is not required. You can do that in any order.
>>>
>>>cd d:\somefolder
>>>d:
>>
>>No, that's not true. If you come from the c and invoked the command prompt, you can not change to the directory on a different drive.
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>The directory changes but you only see the change once you select the other drive, as Dragan showed you.
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>From C:\whatever you can do
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>CD D:\SomeFolder\Or\Another
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>You still get the C:\Whatever prompt, but if you type
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>D:
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>You'll see D:\SomeFolder\Or\Another
:) Well, that's counter-intuitive. When I see wrong prompt, I would not figure out to try typing d: now.
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