Editing Symbolic link (section)

===NTFS junction points===
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The [[Windows 2000]] introduced [[NTFS reparse point]]s, which enabled the use of [[NTFS volume mount point]]s and junction points. Junction points are soft links to machine-local directories (junction points to remote shares are unsupported).<ref name=":99" /> The Windows 2000 and XP Resource Kits include a program called <code>linkd.exe</code> to create junction points. A more powerful one named <code>Junction.exe</code> is distributed as a part of Microsoft Sysinternals Suite.<ref name=":99">{{Cite web |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/junction#junction-v107 |title=Junction v1.07 |work=Microsoft Sysinternals |via=Microsoft Learn |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |author-first=Mark |author-last=Russinovich |author-link=Mark Russinovich |date=4 July 2016}}</ref> The tools introduced above (<code>mklink</code> and <code>New-Item</code>) also support creating junction points.

Not all standard applications support reparse points. Most noticeably, Windows Backup suffers from this problem and will issue an error message 0x80070003 when the folders to be backed up contain a reparse point.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://support.microsoft.com/kb/973455 |title=Windows backup or restore errors 0x80070001, 0x81000037, or 0x80070003 |work=Microsoft Support |publisher=Microsoft |date=17 April 2018}}</ref>