How to use the cd command in Windows Powershell to change the drive that I am working

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I read this answer but it doesn't work for Windows PowerShell. How to change the drive?

EDIT:
Please ignore this question. I was trying to change the drive from C: to D:. The reason it wasn't working was that there was no D: on my computer. A really silly mistake.

possible duplicate of [Using cd Command in Windows Command Line, Can't Navigate to D:∖](http://superuser.com/questions/135214/using-cd-command-in-windows-command-line-cant-navigate-to-d) — Excellll, Jun 23 '13 at 00:52
@Excellll It's not, the question you linked to talks about the native shell (cmd), not PowerShell. — Ohad Schneider, Feb 15 '16 at 14:17
BTW, You should save as a *.ps1 file to run in PowerShell... i.e. Set-Location C:\Folder — CZahrobsky, Aug 30 '16 at 21:34

score 47 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 22 '13 at 14:33

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PowerShell will resolve full paths just fine with CD.

Where in DOS you have to /d for drive changing:

cd /d H:\Folder

PowerShell you can just type the full path:

cd H:\Folder

answered Jun 22 '13 at 14:33

Austin T French

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You can also use: `Set-Location -Path "D:\Toni"`. – Toni Jul 03 '23 at 06:57

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '13 at 14:32

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It’s the same as the DOS shell “cd dir”

answered Jun 22 '13 at 14:32

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`cd dir` won't work if `dir` is on another drive. – Matthias Braun Oct 11 '18 at 09:52
Use the /d switch – Ben Lavender Oct 14 '18 at 20:25
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Sure, that's what I gathered from Austin T French's answer. But having to add `/d` is not obvious at all (to me at least), meaning that information should be part of the answer. Put another way: `cd dir` is not the same as `cd /d dir` – Matthias Braun Oct 15 '18 at 09:16

How to use the cd command in Windows Powershell to change the drive that I am working

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