AD snapshot - how to mount/recover when DB is installed to drive other than C?

When I installed AD, I put everything on the D: (DB, logs, sysvol)
I am trying to utilize the AD snapshot feature. I can take snapshots and delete them all day long. I cannot however, mount and access them. I started off with trying
Ashley McGlone's function set but after it failed it mount I contacted him and he said it was not written to handle AD that was not installed on C:. 
So I regressed back to the NTDSUTIL commands in which his functions were written to handle in the background. I cleared all snapshots and manually took one.
Here you can see even though I took ONE snapshot, two show up: one for C and one for D
I went ahead and mounted both at this point. Then tried running the following command and this is the error I get:
I also tried running that command on both snapshots that were mounted.
Has anyone else successfully used the AD snapshot utility when AD is not installed using the default locations? 
Is this action even supported?

When I installed AD, I put everything on the D: (DB, logs, sysvol)
I am trying to utilize the AD snapshot feature. I can take snapshots and delete them all day long. I cannot however, mount and access them. I started off with trying
Ashley McGlone's function set but after it failed it mount I contacted him and he said it was not written to handle AD that was not installed on C:. 
So I regressed back to the NTDSUTIL commands in which his functions were written to handle in the background. I cleared all snapshots and manually took one.
Here you can see even though I took ONE snapshot, two show up: one for C and one for D
I went ahead and mounted both at this point. Then tried running the following command and this is the error I get:
I also tried running that command on both snapshots that were mounted.
Has anyone else successfully used the AD snapshot utility when AD is not installed using the default locations? 
Is this action even supported?
Yes this works and is supported, try running this in a standard cmd shell, not in powershell, powershell requires paths to be accessed with .\
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