A Drive Bender pooled drive utilizes a standard NTFS structure and can be read on any Windows based machine without any special tools or drivers. There are three ways to access a pooled drive.
- Is to enable "Map pooled driver to mount folder". This option will create Windows mount points for each drive in the pool at "... \Drive Bender\System\Mounts" folder (typically this will be C:\Program Files\Division-M\Drive Bender\System\Mounts).
- If you are running Drive Bender v1.3 or later, there is an option to "Map a drive letter" to any drive that is part of the pool (this is available under "Show advanced options").
- Using the Windows Disk Management console (start menu, type "diskmgmt.msc"), map a Windows drive letter or path to the drive.
Note all of these methods will allow the OS to access the pooled drives directly, this can cause issues with file locking and files being modified without the pool's knowledge. Unless the drive belongs to an unmanaged Drive Bender pool, we highly recommend you access the drives only via the pool under normal circumstances.
Structure - The root of the pooled drive contains a number of files and folders. These are
- A “{ *GUID* }.PI.$DRIVEBENDER” file. This text file details information about the pool this drive is associated with. Opening this file is an easy way to determine what pool instance owners this drive.
- One or more “{ *GUID* }. MP.$DRIVEBENDER” files. These text files detail the mount points that this pool contains. Each of these files should have a corresponding folder of the same name (minus the”.MP.$DRIVEBENDER” extension). Opening this file is a good way to determine the folder / mount point relationship.
- A “{ *GUID* } folder for each mount point in the pool (as detailed in the previous point). All files and folders that are part of the mount point will be under this folder. The structure of these files and folders will be as they appeared under the pooled mount point.
Note a "{*GUID*}" is a set of random characters. An example of a GUID is "{3A4F8B08-0E62-4F97-A7B3-553EC243F23B}"
In the following screen shot, the drive contains three mount points (highlighted)
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