How to mount Google Drive with a letter in Windows

Cloud storage can be really useful to sync files and settings across devices, collaborate in real-time with colleague and much more. The search giant recently released its own cloud storage solution, Google Drive and while the client application is pretty easy to use, only having a shortcut in the desktop to access the offline folder may not be enough. How about if you could mount Google Drive’s folder with a letter in Windows? That way you can access your files as if the drive was physically attached to your PC. This is exactly what you can do with a small application called “Visual Subst”, basically this tool creates a virtual drive and associates a drive letter to the Google Drive folder and display it in Computer, under Hard Disk Drives — cool, right? Keep reading to learn how make it work in your PC.

Mounting Google Drive to Windows

1. Download and install Visual Subst — When you are installing make sure you don’t install the extra software and choose “I do not accept”.

2. Once installed, select a drive letter that isn’t already taken in your computer, click the magnifying glass icon a browse for the Google Drive folder. In Windows Vista and higher, the path should be “C:\Users\[username]\Google Drive”.

3. Check the Apply virtual drives on Windows startup, and then click the green plus icon to add the mapping.

4. Once the association has been made, the virtual drive should be display in the list.

You done it! That’s all there is to it. Go to Computer and the new drive should now be there.

In case you want to delete drive from the Hard Disk Drives, just open Visual Subst, select the virtual drive and click the red plus icon.

Source Cnet.com