Recusive Mount Point eating up my disk

[Sean Kavanaugh]

Never having heard of mount points, I created a mount point on my only
volume (C, which created a "c:\drive path" directory. Soon afterwards, my
antivirus software took ages to scan my hard drive. After 20+ hours of
scanning, I noticed I had nearly a million files on my disk! In the
'c:\drive path' JUNCTION is a copy of my c:\ drive, including a dir c:\drive
path\drive path! There are many more mirrors until the XP limit is hit. How
do I remove this JUNCTION point harmlessly? It all seems obvious now. Moral
of story, never mount yourself!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Sysinternals Freeware - Junction:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com


Never having heard of mount points, I created a mount point on my only
volume (C, which created a "c:\drive path" directory. Soon afterwards, my
antivirus software took ages to scan my hard drive. After 20+ hours of
scanning, I noticed I had nearly a million files on my disk! In the
'c:\drive path' JUNCTION is a copy of my c:\ drive, including a dir c:\drive
path\drive path! There are many more mirrors until the XP limit is hit. How
do I remove this JUNCTION point harmlessly? It all seems obvious now. Moral
of story, never mount yourself!