Access to D: drive (secondary drive) denied on windows about w64devkit

[grable0]

Have you tried cd D:/ ?

[skeeto]

The w64devkit shell is busybox-w32 ash, a POSIX shell, which behaves differently than cmd.exe. To change drives, "cd d:" just like you would any other directory change. Changing the current drive isn't a special case operation. When you type "d:" you're (I think) telling the shell to execute the drive like a program. Since you can't execute a drive, it fails with the error translated to a permission error.

[YaserAlOsh]

Oh, it worked. Silly mistake. Thanks a lot!

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[rmyorston]

When you type "d:" you're (I think) telling the shell to execute the drive like a program.

Actually, D: refers to the current directory of drive D. If you haven't visited D before it'll be the top-level directory of the drive (D:/). The effect is much the same: you can't execute a directory so the command fails.

Paths of the form D:path (note, no slash after the colon) are relative to the current directory of the drive.

For more about this and how busybox-w32 handles paths see my pathnames webpage.

[skeeto]

Thanks for the info, Ron. I didn't know some of this, and it's very helpful!