laravel homestead the host path of shared folder missing error on windows 7

Question

I am trying to set up laravel homestead on my windows 7 machine . I installed vagrant and virtualbox. Also the git bash shell.

did

vagrant box add laravel/homestead
composer global require "laravel/homestead=~2.0"

added composer vendor bin to environment variables.So, homestead command is now accessible from shell

homestead init   

I had edited my Homestead.yaml file and this is the configuration .

I have my laravel projects currently in the mentioned directory in the configuration . ie ( E:// ) directory

folders:
    - map: /e/Projects/Code/apache/laravel
      to: /home/vagrant/Projects

sites:
    - map: foober.dev
      to: /home/vagrant/Projects/foober/public

now whenever I do homestead up, I am getting the error

Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
There are errors in the configuration of this machine. Please fix
the following errors and try again:

vm:
* The host path of the shared folder is missing: /e/Projects/Code/apache/laravel

I have made sure that cd /e/Projects/Code/apache/laravel is working .I am not sure what I am missing here.Must be something silly, but any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The error is simple. It's telling you

The host path of the shared folder is missing: /e/Projects/Code/apache/laravel

Your shared folder is missing. According to your question. You are using window. So, window shouldn't work like

cd /e/Projects/Code/apache/laravel

Should be like YourPartitionName:/Yourdirectory.

Example:

folders:
    - map: E:/Projects/Code/apache/laravel
      to: /home/vagrant/Projects