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Microsoft Platform Guide

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Learn the syntax for the subst and sdelete commands.

Reference syntax for “subst”


PS C:\Users\Administrator.CSGLAB> subst /?
Associates a path with a drive letter.

 SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path]
 SUBST drive1: /D
    drive1:        Specifies a virtual drive to which you want to assign a path.
   [drive2:]path  Specifies a physical drive and path you want to assign to
                  a virtual drive.
   /D             Deletes a substituted (virtual) drive.
 
  Type SUBST with no parameters to display a list of current virtual drives.

Reference syntax for “sdelete”


PS B:\> .\sdelete.exe /h
 SDelete - Secure Delete v1.61
Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

 usage: B:\sdelete.exe [-p passes] [-s] [-q] <file or directory> ...
       B:\sdelete.exe [-p passes] [-z|-c] [drive letter] ...
   -a         Remove Read-Only attribute
   -c         Clean free space
   -p passes  Specifies number of overwrite passes (default is 1)
   -q         Don't print errors (Quiet)
   -s or -r   Recurse subdirectories
   -z         Zero free space (good for virtual disk optimization)