PowerShell will automatically create a drive for any disk with a drive letter, any existing shared drive, the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hives, the certificate store, and so on.

Additional drives may be added using New-PSDrive; for example, a network drive can be created:

New-PSDrive X -PSProvider FileSystem -Root \ServerShare 
New-PSDrive HKCR -PSProvider Registry -Root HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT 

Existing drives may be removed using Remove-PSDrive. PowerShell allows filesystem drives to be removed; however, this is not a destructive operation, and it only removes the reference to the drive from PowerShell.

The filesystem provider supports the use of credentials when creating a drive, allowing network shares to be mapped using specific credentials.