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Fixing Conflict Between Each teacher has received a flash
drive [1] with his or her laptop. Some laptops come with two fixed disk
drives already named (usually drive C: and drive D: [2]). In those cases, the CD-ROM drive becomes
drive E: and the first network drive becomes drive F:. If you are logged into the
district network with your flash drive installed, Windows will assign drive
F: to your flash drive and will drop your network connection. This presents a problem with accessing all
the network applications you need. This problem can be fixed with the
following steps (note, if you don’t have a drive-D: partition, you do not
have this problem): For computers with the extra
"recovery" partition on the hard drive (a drive-D: partition), you
can do the following to allow your flash drive to be recognized while on the
network, without conflicting with the network drive F: 1. Log onto the
network and insert the flash drive in a USB port. 2. Right-click My
Computer. 3. From the pop-up
menu, choose Manage. 4. Then choose Disk
Management from the displayed options. 5. Right-click the
flash drive listed in the right pane. 7. Click Change and
choose a drive letter (it's best to choose "G" because we will
never assign that letter to a network drive). 8. Click OK until
all windows close. 9. Reboot your
computer and your drive letters should be present, including drive F: and
drive G:. 10. Every time the
computer finds your flash drive from now on, it will be assigned the new
drive letter. |
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Revised 2/8/06 |
[1] A
flash drive is also called a “thumb drive” and a “USB drive,” among other
terms. [2] Drive
C: is the normal drive for computer operation; drive D:, in this case, is a
“recovery drive.” It contains a copy
or image of the software on drive C:.
If something goes wrong on drive C:, you can recover the operating
system from drive D:. |