Command prompt won t change directory to another drive

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I m trying to compile some java  learning java currently   and to do so I need to change command-prompt s directory  using javac    C      Admin gt  cd D  Docs Java C      Admin gt  cd C      Admin   It doesn t change the directory  I try again using quotes   C      Admin gt  cd  D  Docs Java  C      Admin gt    Again it doesn t change the directory  What am I doing wrong

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I suppose you are using Windows system   Once you open CMD you would be shown with the default location i e  like this   C  Users Admin - In your case its admin as mentioned else it will be the username of your computer  Consider if you want to move to E directory then simply type  E    This will move the user to E  Directory  Now change to what ever folder you want to point to in E  Drive   Ex  If you want to move to Software directory of E folder then first type  E    then type the location of the folder  cd E  Software   Viola

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The directory you re switching to is on another drive  you need to switch to that drive using    C      Admin gt  d    then you can cd into the directory you want   C      Admin gt  d  D   gt cd  Docs Java   D  Docs Java gt

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you should use a  d before path as below    cd  d e

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The cd command on Windows is not intuitive for users of Linux systems  If you expect cd to go to another directory no matter whether it is in the current drive or another drive  you can create an alias for cd  Here is how to do it in Cmder    Go to  CMDER ROOT config and open the file user aliases cmd Add the following to the end of the file    cd cd  d      Restart Cmder and you should be able to cd to any directory you want  It is a small trick but works great and saves your time

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You can change directory using this command  like   currently if you current working directoris c   drive the if you want to go to your  D   drive then type this command  cd  d D     now your current working directory is D   drive so you want go to  Java directory under Docs so type below command    cd Docs Java   note   d stands for drive

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The short answer  The correct way to go from C      Adminto D  Docs Java drive  is the following command    cd  d d  Docs Java     More details  If you re somewhere random on your D   drive  and you want to go to the root of your drive  you can use this command    cd d     If you re somewhere random on your D   drive  and you want to go to a specific folder on your drive  you can use this command    cd d  Docs Java   If you re on a different drive  and you want to go to the root of your D   drive  you can use this command    cd  d d     If you re on a different drive  and you want to go to a specific folder on your D  drive  you can use this command    cd  d d  Docs Java   If you re on a different drive  and you want to go to the last open folder of you D  drive  you can use this command    cd  d d    As a shorthand for cd  d d   you can also use this command    d

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In order to move to D drive in windows use  C  Users Balaji d   In order to move to E drive use  C  Users Balaji e   same will be applicable for other drives

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If you want to change from current working directory to another directory then in the command prompt you need to type the name of the drive you need to change to  followed by   symbol  example  assume that you want to change to D-drive and you are in C-drive currently  then type D  and hit Enter   On the other hand if you wish to change directory within same working directory then use cd change directory  command followed by directory name  example  assuming you wish to change to new folder then type  cd  new folder  and hit enter   Tips to use CMD  Windows command line are not case sensitive  When working with a file or directory with a space  surround it in quotes  For example  My Documents would be  My Documents   When a file or directory is deleted in the command line  it is not moved into the Recycle bin  If you need help with any of command type    after the command  For example  dir    would give the options available for the dir command

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As  nasreddine answered or you can use  d  cd  d d  Docs Java   For more help on the cd command use   C  Documents and Settings kenny gt help cd      Displays the name of or changes the current directory       CHDIR   D   drive   path    CHDIR        CD   D   drive   path    CD                Specifies that you want to change to the parent directory       Type CD drive  to display the current directory in the specified drive    Type CD without parameters to display the current drive and directory       Use the  D switch to change current drive in addition to changing current   directory for a drive       If Command Extensions are enabled CHDIR changes as follows       The current directory string is converted to use the same case as   the on disk names   So CD C  TEMP would actually set the current   directory to C  Temp if that is the case on disk       CHDIR command does not treat spaces as delimiters  so it is possible to   CD into a subdirectory name that contains a space without surrounding   the name with quotes   For example       cd  winnt profiles username programs start menu      is the same as       cd   winnt profiles username programs start menu       which is what you would have to type if extensions were disabled

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you can use help on command prompt on cd command  by writing this command cd    as shown in this figure

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Use drive letter d for changing to D drive like     C   gt  d    When changing drives  you just need to type the drive letter  like d   don t use the backslash  like d    it doesn t work        You only use cd when moving between directories within the same drive

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