# mklink
[mklink](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mklink) is good for making directory/file symbolic (or hard) links.

## Link to a shadow copy
If you've made a shadow copy because you're sneaky and want to extract hives from it, one strategy that *might* work is to create a link to the shadow copy backup, and then copy the hives from there:

```
mklink /d C:\tempbackup \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy123\
```