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I am trying to create and remove a new mapped network drive using PowerShell.

It creates the mapped drive, however I can't seem to remove the mapped drive. The error message I receive is:

Dir : Cannot find path 'C:Windowssystem32P' because it does not exist.

New-PSDrive -Name "P" -Root "\VM-Blue-RobinTesting" -Persist -PSProvider "FileSystem" 

#Get-PSDrive P | Remove-PSDrive

#Remove-PSDrive -Name P -Force

#Remove-PSDrive P, Z

All Google and Stack Overflow has suggested to me thus far is using the commands that I have previously commented out. I am unsure of what I am doing wrong but had a feeling it could be done to the location of my files perhaps?

All help would be greatly appreciated!

The error is because you're running dir P instead of dir P: You need the : to signify a drive not a folder.

dir (which in Powershell is a actually an alias for Get-ChildItem) can read multiple areas of the OS so you need to be more specific with what you tell it.

Examples:

• File system: Get-ChildItem C:
  


• Registry: Get-ChildItem HKCU:
  


• Certificate Store: Get-ChildItem cert:
  

Whilst with Get/Remove-PSDrive commands you are specifically telling it you want a "FileSystem" drive so it knows that Name is a drive letter.

With regards to removing the drive, either of the two commands you've listed will work fine:

New-PSDrive -Name P -Root "\VM-Blue-RobinTesting" -Persist -PSProvider "FileSystem" 



Get-PSDrive P | Remove-PSDrive

Remove-PSDrive -Name P -Force