CD command ceased to work

[HOSSA]

Hi!
First, thanks for a great site, lots of good info!

After changing a couple of services (all according to the "safe mode" recommendations, wich by the way increased the speed of my computer radically!) i fuound a side effect: i can no longer use the cd-command in command line, in order to change dir to another hard drive partition. it works for changing dir within the C-drive but not in for example the D-drive. I've tried to revert to the "old" settings, but that doesn't seem to help.

Any ideas?

Much appreciate your help!

Best regards:Hossa

[Black Viper]

The email you sent me is slightly different then this post... you state you are using "cd D:/directory name".

Not sure what you are trying to do but usually "cd" and "drive letter" are not on the same command... sort of.

C:\Windows>d: = change drive to d drive
D:>

C:\>cd \windows = change dir to windows on current drive
C:\Windows>

if currently in d:
and you type:

D:\>cd c:\Windows
D:>

you will remain on d:, but when you change back to c: (using the command on a line by itself) you will be in the windows directory.

I assume this is intended behavior... and has nothing to do with service settings at all.

Any thoughts from anyone else? Am I barking up the wrong tree?

[Z.Fibonacci]

BV's reply is correct. The most common practice is to CD (change directory) on the current drive, in which case you normally omit the drive letter.

However, it is possible to change the current directory on another drive by adding the drive letter. If your current drive is C: but you want to change the current directory on D: you can use

C:\>cd D:\directory_name

exactly as BV posted. I don't know if this is what HOSSA was asking, but all the examples posted by BV seem correct to me. I can't imagine how changing any service to its "Safe" mode (manual, automatic, or disabled) would affect the elemetary DOS commands.