>>>>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.
>
>The directory changes but you only see the change once you select the other drive, as Dragan showed you.
>
>From C:\whatever you can do
>
>CD D:\SomeFolder\Or\Another
>
>You still get the C:\Whatever prompt, but if you type
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>D:
>
>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.