Local folder mapped as network drive goes away if no network device active

[Ken Doerbecker]

We have a rather unusual requirement to map a folder on a
local drive as a network drive in order to give it a
different drive letter. We are doing this on a stand alone
PC for the sake of consistency for a specific appication
with others in a network that it ocassionally VPN's into
via a dial-up connection.
The mapping solution works well EXCEPT that the mapped
drive is unavailable if there is no active network device
installed in the PC. We discovered this when we removed a
wireless PC card from it and could no longer access the
mapped drive. We are mapping a folder on the c: drive as
the T: drive. There is also a NIC but it is unplugged.
Is there some way to keep the mapped drive active? Is
there another way to get a T: drive on the HD. The free
space on the HD is fully allocated to C.
TIA,
Ken

 

[ThePainter]

I think the only way you can do this is to use a program
like partition magic and partition your drive up then
your computer sees them as seperate drives.
I do this and have recreated "My Documents" in its own
drive this prevents viruses getting in there unless you
put them there manually by accident.
It also means if your system crashes and you need to
reinstall windows your documents will still be there.

 

[Ron Rector]

You might be able to get around it by installing a generic
network card(not physically installed)so that one shows up
in device manager.