Since you may contain observed when you attended your My Computer icon or Windows Explorer that you contain drive letters allocated to your drives. Your floppy disk drive is allocated A, your hard drive is allocated C and your CDROM is allocated the letter D. If you have over one hard drive or CDROM then these letters may differ.

If you have a home network or are on a network at the workplace you may have network drives or places that you access regularly or copy data to and from on a normal basis. To create this process easier you can map a network drive to your network place. What this does it allocate a drive letter to your networked drive? You can employ any obtainable letter from A to Z providing it is not already occupied. Then this drive letter will humiliate in Windows Explorer together with your other drives and wait there unless the connection to that drive is lost. Then you will observe a red x through your drive letter.

We will go over the 2 simple ways to map a network drive. One method is to open My Computer or Windows Explorer and attend Tools and then Map Network Drive. You should perceive a dialog box like this.

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As you can perceive here it is asking you to choose the drive letter you desire to allocate to this new drive and the place of the networked/shared folder. You can either type it in if you know the UNC path or surf to it. If you check the Reconnect at login box then each time you login to your computer it will map that drive yet again for you.

Another way to map a network drive is to discover the shared folder by browsing My Network Places. Then you would right click the folder you desire to map and choose Map Network Drive. You will obtain the same window as above apart from the Folder box will be filled in automatically with the path of the folder you right clicked on.