Help with Symbolic Links

[Artreid]

I have a 80GB SSD drive as C:\ and a 750GB E:\drive
How would I create a symbolic link for c:\users\owner\downloads on my E:\
drive?

I first copy my C:\users\owner\downloads from C:\ to E:\

Then in a DOS window I enter:
mklink /d "C:\users\owner\downloads" "E:\users\owner\downloads"

I then receive the msg: Folder already Exists?

(No Joy)...

 

[Char Jackson]

I have a 80GB SSD drive as C:\ and a 750GB E:\drive
How would I create a symbolic link for c:\users\owner\downloads on my E:\
drive?

I first copy my C:\users\owner\downloads from C:\ to E:\

Then in a DOS window I enter:
mklink /d "C:\users\owner\downloads" "E:\users\owner\downloads"

I then receive the msg: Folder already Exists?

(No Joy)...

Rename "E:\users\owner\downloads" to something else, like
"E:\users\owner\downloads-2" so that the original name no longer
exists. Run the mklink command and see what happens. I mostly expect
it to create the folder, "E:\users\owner\downloads". Now move
everything from "E:\users\owner\downloads-2" into your new
"E:\users\owner\downloads" folder and delete
"E:\users\owner\downloads-2".

Note that I didn't try it because I don't want a new symbolic link.