How does one programmatically mount a drive in Windows?

Question

We make and sell a device that our users will sometimes want to connect to their computer in large quantities with multiple USB hubs. It is a USB composite device that has b

Answer 1

It seems to me that you have to use IOCTL_MOUNTMGR_CREATE_POINT. Unfortunately the most example used IOCTL_MOUNTMGR_XXX are written for kernel mode drivers, but it is not required. Probably my old answer (which use IOCTL_MOUNTMGR_QUERY_POINTS) and another one can help you to do this. See also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff567603.aspx and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836662.

It can be that after better understanding how IOCTL_MOUNTMGR_CREATE_POINT should be used you will be able to solve the problem with respect of SetVolumeMountPoint.