Lost Drive

[Guest]

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

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.