Accessing a cygwin symlink from windows

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I am quite new to cygwin. I created a symlink as follows
$ ln -s /var/www /cygdrive/d/foo

and when I check the d drive via windows, I see a system file called foo. Is there a way to make foo act as a folder for windows instead of the system file?

Thanks
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