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Multiple Flash Drives
Hi all,
I work at a college which just purchased a lot of new PC's that are running the XP Pro. We have a lot of students as well as faculty that have purchase the flash drives. Since the PC's are tied to the campuses network, we are having a problem with using different flash drives. I notice that when you use this drive, it takes on the next letter from the CD or next drive. The problem is that our network drivers start with the letter "F" and we can not change this setup. Is there a way that we can use the different flash drives without having to change any of the drive letters? We know we can take each different drive letter and set it up on all the lab computers, but this is not a viable work around. If anyone has any help we would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for the time. Dan (Still going in circles) |
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Multiple Flash Drives
Log onto your network drives first then connect the flash drives. This will cause them to go to the next available Letter "G"
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Thank you for getting back to me so fast. However, we can not and do
not allow our students to log onto any of the network drives. The network drives that they may need access to is already pre-mapped for them. The other problem is that some of those network drives can not be changed as they are being used by the instructor's. If the drive letter is changed, is it only on that PC or will it effect the other PC's tied to that network drive. Dan (Still going in circles) On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:16:09 -0800, "Byte" wrote: Log onto your network drives first then connect the flash drives. This will cause them to go to the next available Letter "G" |
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Multiple Flash Drives
Then I guess I don't understand the problem. If the students aren't allowed
on the network drives, what difference does it make if their flash drives (or any other drive, for that matter) takes the same drive letter as a network drive they can't access? "skip" wrote in message ... Thank you for getting back to me so fast. However, we can not and do not allow our students to log onto any of the network drives. The network drives that they may need access to is already pre-mapped for them. The other problem is that some of those network drives can not be changed as they are being used by the instructor's. If the drive letter is changed, is it only on that PC or will it effect the other PC's tied to that network drive. Dan (Still going in circles) On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:16:09 -0800, "Byte" wrote: Log onto your network drives first then connect the flash drives. This will cause them to go to the next available Letter "G" |
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Multiple Flash Drives
ok, here's our solution. We took a storage device, in this case it
was the zip, assigned it a new drive letter, higher up the list and that left the "D" drive letter open. Now when anyone attaches their flash drive to the pc, it is recognized and they can use it. Dan (Still going in circles) On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:25:20 GMT, skip wrote: Thank you for getting back to me so fast. However, we can not and do not allow our students to log onto any of the network drives. The network drives that they may need access to is already pre-mapped for them. The other problem is that some of those network drives can not be changed as they are being used by the instructor's. If the drive letter is changed, is it only on that PC or will it effect the other PC's tied to that network drive. Dan (Still going in circles) On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:16:09 -0800, "Byte" wrote: Log onto your network drives first then connect the flash drives. This will cause them to go to the next available Letter "G" |
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