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I've been acquiring new hard drives over the years as I rip more CDs, take more photos, etc. As you'd imagine, it gets harder to keep track of what is where, what's worth keeping, what's not, etc. I finally lost it yesterday and took a few hours to write something to create a single virtual drive. It's nothing fancy like a file system driver, but simply a Windows Explorer-like app that shows all of the drives you want (including networked drives) as a single drive. I have no idea if anyone else would find this useful. If so, let me know and I'll clean it up and post the source on my site (and get a better icon).
“Features”
User picks which drives to use in the virtual drive, including network drives. (This is good for me because my “server“ machine has two internal and two external.)
Folder tree view is an aggregate view of all of the folders on all the drives. For example, although I have two or three “\Documents and Settings\Jeff“ folders on different drives, it shows up only once. Every file is shown.