# Accessing Windows drive letters under cygwin

If a drive does not have an explicit mount point configured Cygwin will default to an imaginary mount point under /cygdrive. So “c:\\windows\\system32” becomes “/cygdrive/c/windows/system32”. (In most cases it’s best to change “\\” into “/”.)

You can also create an alternate mount point and mount the drive there:

$ mkdir /c  
$ mount c:/ /c

In this case “c:\\windows\\system32” becomes “/c/windows/system32”. Run “mount” to see the current list of mount points.

- [Cygwin mount table](http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table)
- [Using mount](http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount)