Nonstandard symbolic link to a disk volume

Dear All,

I create a symbolic link like "\??\Qwerty" which points to "\Device\HarddiskVolume1".
When I use this link in the Win32 API functions (like "\\.\Qwerty\blablabla"), it works ok.

Also the following examples of use of this symlink in the cmd are successful:
echo blablabla > \\.\Qwerty\SomeFileName.txt
\\.\Qwerty\SomeFileName.txt

But I cannot either to open the volume by the symlink ("\\.\Qwerty\") in file explorer or to do in the cmd
dir \\.\Qwerty\*

Is there an opportunity to open a target volume in file explorer using the above symlink?

Thanks.

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Best regards,
Vladimir Zinin
mailto:vzinin@xxxxxxxxx
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