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How to remove mapped network drive using PowerShell?

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Using PowerShell and cmd in Windows Systems, you can remove mapped network drive.

PowerShell Remove-PSDrive cmdlet used to remove mapped network drive in PowerShell and net use in cmd used to remove mapped network drive.

In this article, I will explain you how to remove mapped network drive using PowerShell and cmd in Windows System.

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1 Using PowerShell to remove mapped network drive
2 Using Cmd to remove mapped network drive
3 Conclusion

Using PowerShell to remove mapped network drive

Use Remove-PSDrive cmdlet to remove mapped network drive using PowerShell.

Lets consider we have mapped network drive using New-PSDrive at drive letter K

 New-PSDrive -Name "K" -PSProvider "FileSystem" -Root "\\Corp-in-18\Software" -Persist

Above command will create persistent mapped network drive for root specified path.

To remove, mapped network drive use below command

Remove-PSDrive K -Force -Verbose 

VERBOSE: Performing the operation "Remove Drive" on target "Name: K Provider: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem
Root: K:\".

Above command will remove mapped network drive with specified drive letter K.

To remove multiple drives, separate drives by comma (,) as given in below command.

Remove-PSDrive J,K -Force -Verbose 

VERBOSE: Performing the operation "Remove Drive" on target "Name: J Provider: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem
Root: J:\".

VERBOSE: Performing the operation "Remove Drive" on target "Name: K Provider: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem
Root: K:\".

You can get the mapped network drive using Get-PSDrive and using pipeline operator use Remove-PSDrive to remove specified drive letter.

Get-PSDrive J,K | Remove-PSDrive -Force -Verbose

VERBOSE: Performing the operation "Remove Drive" on target "Name: J Provider: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem
Root: J:\".

VERBOSE: Performing the operation "Remove Drive" on target "Name: K Provider: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem
Root: K:\".

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Using Cmd to remove mapped network drive

Using net use command to remove mapped network drive by specifying drive letter.

To remove a single network drive, use below command

C:\>net use K: /delete
K: was deleted successfully.

Cool Tip: Using multiline command in PowerShell!

Conclusion

I hope above article to remove mapped network drive using PowerShell and cmd useful. PowerShell Remove-PSDrive cmdlet and net use in cmd used to remove mapped network drive.

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