PSDrives

PowerShell Drives (PSDrives)

PowerShell Drives (PSDrives) are abstractions of file systems which allow one to access and treat various data stores as if they were file systems.

PowerShell provides a few PSDrives by default.

PSDrive	Meaning
File System Drives (C, D, etc.)	These are direct mappings to the file system drives.
Registry Drives (HKCU, HKLM)	These correspond to the keys in the Windows registry.
Cert	Stores all installed certificates.
Env	Contains all environment variables.
Variables	Stores all defined variables.
Functions	Contains all defined functions.

To navigate to a path within a PowerShell drive, you need to add a colon (:) to its name - for example C:\, Env:\, etc.

Managing PSDrives

How-To: View PSDrives

To view all available PowerShell drives:

Get-PSDrive

How-To: Create PSDrives

To create a PSDrive you need to specify a name, a provider (FileSystem for a drive stored on the file system and Registry for a drive stored in the Windows Registry) and a root location for the drive.

New-PSDrive -Name <Name> -PSProvider <Provider> -Root <Path>

How-To: Delete PSDrive

You will first need to change to a different drive than the one you want to delete. Then just run:

Remove-PSDrive -Name <Name>