I'm trying to create datafiles on the root of some mounted drives. For example, I have SQL installed on a drive mapped as S:. I have a folder under S called "MyBigDatabase". Under that I have 8 drives mounted as 1, 2, ... 8. Ideally I can just tell SQL to create the datafiles on the of those mapped drives instead of creating more folders underneath for no good reason. The "folder permissions" of the root look like they should allow SQL Server the permissions to do it. The SQL user is a domain account with local admin privileges, yet I still get the access denied error when creating the database. What am I missing?
SQL 2012, Windows 2012.