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How do I find where a network drive is mapped to in windows 7?
After a bit of googling and searching these forums all the questions seem to be "how do I map a network drive?". However I want to know how to find out where a network drive on my work machine is ...
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Deleting a file from a network drive
If I have a network drive setup which connects to a specific server. If I delete a file from that network drive, it does not go into my desktop recycle bin and it does not go into the recycle bin on ...
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How to wake a network drive from batch script?
I have a batch script which runs a robocopy. It is failing because the drive is not awake.
In windows explorer, doubling clicking on that icon "wakes" up the link and the cross disappears and the ...
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Network drive constantly remaps at startup
I mitakenly mapped my P: drive in Windows 7 to a useless network share, and for the life of me I can't remove the network drive. It was set to "reconnect at login" and it seems impossible to remove. ...
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Why can't I see 95% of a file's .jpg pics on my old XP hard drive (F) patched into my new Win7 system?
Networked drives, Lost in Translation? 5% success rate? Old XP files on HD F, fetched from new Win7 system HD C... is proving a puzzling hit & miss.
If I boot up in XP from my old hard drive, ...
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Permanently unmap network printer (from network locations)
I have a printer that creates an unusable 'network drive' in computer, and thus reserves the X drive letter.
And because i have a lot of hard disks i need every drive letter available.
And it is ...
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Cannot delete folders on a network drive from Windows 7
I have a really strange problem. I am using Windows 7 Professional with SP1 installed. I have a My Book 500GB external hard drive connected to the network via Linksys E3000. Now in Windows 7 I am ...
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How do I find the user that was specified on a drive mapping?
I'm running Windows 7, and I have various network drives that were previously mapped.
I want to check which credentials were specified at the point that the mapping was created.
How can I see this ...
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Looking for definitive answer to accessing a network drive/NAS/SMB drive via Windows 7 HOME and Windows 7 Professional. Is it possible and how?
I want to be able to access my Lacie 2Big network drive in Windows 7 Explorer. I have a machine with Windows 7 Home and one with Windows 7 Professional.
Neither Windows 7, home or pro, can access the ...
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Blue Screen of Death when accessing a mapped network drive
I'm facing a hard time solving a BSOD which happens whenever I access a mapped network drive. It only happens when I access a particular folder in this drive.
The error code is:
BAD_POOL_HEADER
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xcopy from and to a network drive
Using a batch file, suppose a directory on a network machine, mapped to a drive with net use.
net use \\"server name"\"share name" y:
Then from that directory
y:
cd archive
An xcopy to another ...
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Error message when renaming files on a network drive stored in Windows 7 favorites
I have a network drive mapped to a share on a Window Server 2003. I have a shortcut to this drive stored in my Windows 7 favorites. When I double click the shortcut and then rename a file on the ...
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Can you browse a UNC path using a command line environment without mapping it to a network drive?
C:\> cd \\somewhere
'\\somewhere'
CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories.
What I usually do to get around this is to map that directory to a network drive and then I could easily ...
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Store XP Pro user profiles on a networked drive?
In linux, it's easy to store user folders on a networked drive - just mount it on /home - but I can't seem to find any resources for this in XP Pro. Note that I don't need to move the whole ...
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LACIE - d2 Network 2 - Cannot connect to domain
I have this Network Storage drive but it doesn't seem to be able to connect to the domain.
The manual says to supply a username and password that is in the Domain Admins group. I am providing
one ...
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Webdav on winxp cannot create network locations to multiple accounts on same server?
I'm trying to have a few 4shared accounts working with the windows webdav integration. However, when i give different login credentials in the map network drive wizard, and then open the second webdav ...
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How to remap network drives without logging in again?
Normally when I log in to Windows Vista I have several network drives that automatically get mapped. Every so often this fails. Is there a way I can triggering mapping all these drives without logging ...
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Rolling Your Own Online Storage on Shared Hosting Account
I've got a Windows-based shared webhosting account ( with arvixe.com - no admin/root access via RDP - all web control panels) which I used to use to host freelance (ASP.Net) projects for clients. Due ...
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Getting Access is denied while using NET view command
I'm trying to map a network drive to my machine and I'm using net view \computename but I'm getting the "Access is denied" message.
How do I provide the username and password to the net view command ...
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When accessing a drive on a computer over the network, why do you use a '$'
When accessing a network drive over a network, i.e. \\BasementComputer\C$
Why do I need to use the '$', is this just a syntax thing?
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IP changes network share problem
Hii all,
I was able to map a network drive(linux machine folder) on my windows box .but now ip of linux machine has changed and now when i tring to map the same drive again ,i could n't able ...
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Problem in mapping a network drive
I am trying to map a network drive using command:
net use * //192.168.211.11
But getting an error message like this:
System error 53 has occurred.
The network path was not found.
I ...
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How do I change to a mapped network drive at the command line?
I have a networked drive mapped to "U:\"
I want to go to that drive from a command line.
However, when I try I get an error
C:>u:
The system cannot find the drive specified.
How do I do that? Can ...
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Is Windows 7 better at handling mapped network drives than Windows XP?
I am looking for justifications to upgrade my workstation from Windows XP (SP3) to Windows 7.
Is Windows 7 better at handling mapped network drives than Windows XP?
I keep having issues with "drive ...
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Deleted file on network drive
I deleted a file on a network drive. Is it possible to get it back? It is not in my recycle bin, and it is not in the recycle bin on the server to which I have a network drive too.
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Automatically move files to an external drive when it's available
I have an networked drive connected to an Airport Extreme, so it's available whenever I'm on my home wifi network. I'd like to automatically move files from a specific folder to a specific folder on ...
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Do network hard drives require a computer to work/be network accessible?
I want the network hard drive or drive with an ethernet port so that I don't need a computer to make it network-accessible. Is a computer required, or can I do this computer-independently with an ...
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Windows 7 doesn't connect to mapped drives at start up
We are testing Windows 7 (32bit version) and logon to a windows 2003 domain that runs a logon script whichs maps our drive letters. We have no control over the domain. Of our 7 test users, 5 ...
