Replace the workaround introduced as a "temporary fix to avoid breaking
backwards compatibility in 2.8" back in 9e1c7236e0 (don't treat foo in
c:\\foo\bar as network share, 2006-12-17) with a better solution
proposed in the comment in that commit, i.e. don't even try to extract
the volume from the path if we already have the volume separately.
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