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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Networking and Web / August 2005Lost Drive
I plugged a portable hard drive into my PC to upload some information, and to run a back up. It assigned the drive letter "D". My computer is hooked into a network on which my accounting software, and Microsoft Outlook and other like programs run, in order that my other computer shares the same data as these programs. The drive these programs run thorugh is "D". So, not my computer no longer recognizes that there is a "D" drive, even after I disconnected the portable hard drive, and therefore am unable to access the programs running through this drive off of my computer. I have used the protable hard drive on other computers on the network and have never experienced this problem with any of them. How can I correct this problem. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide me. Mirissa Is the drive your programs stored in a network mapped drive? Because windows never give the same letter to two drives auto. You can try the following: 1- right click on my computer 2- mange 3- disk management 4- select the drive you want and assign drive letter by force hope this can be useful > I plugged a portable hard drive into my PC to upload some information, and to > run a back up. It assigned the drive letter "D". My computer is hooked into [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Mirissa Sorry, I know this is an ignorant question, but how do I know if its a network mapped drive. I've never worked with network before now (other than just using a coputer linked to it), and am totally baffled. The computer does not even ackowledge that this drvie exists anymore. It is not a local disk on the computer where it is missing from. For some reason (apparantly this has happened in the past as well) whenever an external drive of any sort (even a iPod did it) is plugged in, the computer assigns it as the D drive, and losses its link to the D drive on the network. It shows nothing about what should be the D drive. Before we had to hire someone to come in and fix everything for us, and we really want to prevent this from happening again. I hope this clears up what the problem is. > Is the drive your programs stored in a network mapped drive? > Because windows never give the same letter to two drives auto. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > > > Mirissa The network mapped drive is a shard folder on the network that has a drive letter ( like the local hard disk partition) in order to make it easy to use. So it is not vaild if the network is disconnected. > Sorry, I know this is an ignorant question, but how do I know if its a > network mapped drive. I've never worked with network before now (other than [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > > > > > Mirissa |
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