Network Share Drive Letters Disappearing
May 6, 2008
I haven't found a solution to this yet: I have 2 network driver established. They reconnect during reboots and are accessible fine. For some reason they stopped being visible in explorer until I explicitly go to them by enteing the letter in the address bar. Then one or both with show up (usually just the one I put in) I also have an internet webdav drive that also does not show up until i put it's letter in the address bar. If I use applications to access the letters, they show up ok in that application's file open/save box.
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Feb 18, 2010
I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem. I have a Win7 Home Premium 32bit netbook and a Vista Home Premium 64bit laptop on a wireless network. I'm able to share files, folders, and a printer with no problem, but I can't seem to share the DVD drive on the laptop. I want to be able to install software on the Win7 netbook using the Vista laptop's DVD drive over the network. The DVD drive is shared and given full control permission. It shows up on the Win7 netbook, but when I try to access it, it says Windows cannot access (drive name). You do not have permission to access (drive name). Contact your network administrator to request access.
After browsing the net for a solution, I think an entry in the Vista registry is restricting access to the drive through a group policy. I saw on another forum where changing the Default value to 0 may correct this issue. I also changed the ValueType value to 0. Neither worked for me. Then I noticed that DisplayName value, @wsecedit.dll,-59098. (See picture) I researched and found out that it had something to do with a Group Policy restriction. Since there is no Group Policy Editor for Vista Home Premium, could I simply delete that entry? How else could I change or edit that? (I saw on this forum where someone is working on Group Policy Editor for all versions of Vista).
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Oct 19, 2009
With the advent of terabyte hard drives, is there a work around for the limitatation of 26 letters for drive designations. I have a new computer with 2 terabyte hard drives, two DVD's, several USB connections, and I am running three different programs from ISO files stored on the hard drive with Daemon Tools, all of which take up drive letters. I have Windows Vista Home Premium, but see no work around for this limitation. I have searched Microsoft KB finding nothing addressing this issue. I am hoping that some one knows of a work around for the problem
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Nov 6, 2009
I want to install Windows 7.I have 2 Hard Drives, both are portioned in 2 .
If I install windows 7 by booting into Vista, inserting the Windows 7 DVD and run setup.
This way I can assign drive letters that I will want to use consistently in both Operating Systems
I am a little bit confused after reading about installing Win 7. If I boot from Win 7 DVD it will assign the letter C: to its Boot Volume, no matter what drive I choose.
Then it says to assign D: to the start volume. The other letters will be in sequence.
Does that mean I need to put Win & Boot Volume on the same drive as Vista's Boot Volume?
As of now I have First Drive Portioned in to C: and D:
Second Drive Portioned into E: and F:.
I want to install Win 7 on the second drive in part ion 1 which is E:
When I install from Vista I just have to check E: Drive and the Boot Volume
will be on E: too. Hopefully I will have the choice to boot into Vista or
Win 7?
I would also like to give the Drives Names:
Drive 1 Portion 1 Big Vista - Which is C:
Drive 1 Partition 2 Little Vista - Which is D:
Drive 2 Partition 1 Big Win 7 - Which is E:
Drive 2 Partition 2 Little Win 7 -Which is F:
This way I will know exactly which is which, even if Vista calls Big Vista
C and Little Vista D: Also if Win 7 calls it Big Win 7 H:
I hope I explained myself?
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Apr 2, 2009
I have the following setup now: C: Vista, D: CD, E: CD RW,F: DVD RW, G: = Backup Vista, H: Backup 2, I: Old Stuff. This is what shows up when I look in Computer. The surprising is that I = don't have a CD, although I do have everything else. I want to remove = the erroneous D: and rename I: to D: -- and Disk Management does not = appear to help.
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Apr 15, 2009
I have 5 USB devices (2 external drives, 1 flash drive, one CF card reader, and 1 Sony walkman) that when connected score a drive letter. My problem is that the drive letters change depending on the order in which the devices are connected (the first one plugged in gets drive F, then G, etc). This causes a headache for my backup software SyncBackPro, where I have schemes set up for my two external hard drives based on drive letters. I can change the drive letters in Disk Management (Vista Ultimate) but that only sticks while that device is connected. For instance, if I unplug my primary backup drive G and connect my flash drive, the flash drive would then become G. Is there any way of permanently locking a particular device to a particular drive letter?
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Jan 3, 2009
after shrinking the D: partition, the drive letters and actual partition sequence on the drive changed - the C: (Vista) partition has switched places with the D: (Recovery) partition in Disk Management (D: is now in front of C I first defragged the D: drive using JKDefrag and used its built in feature to move all the files to the end of that partition, so that after splitting D:, the blank portion would be next to the C: partition (so I could have it merge with C: ) how do I get the partitions back to their normal positions (in Disk Mgmt)? and if I delete the D: partition, will it merges with C: and keep my Vista install harmed?
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Sep 11, 2009
When I go into my computer I cannot see my drive letters, if I type in the drive letter I can then get to that drive:mad: this is very frustrating, I hate having to type in the letter of the drive that I wish to use
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Jul 3, 2008
Sometimes I can see the memory card installed on my HP printer and can access it through my desktop and notebook as a drive (Z:). Other times it just disappears and even if I type in the address it can not be found.
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Apr 7, 2009
Scenario: 4 PC's. All in the same domain.pc #1, Windows XP Pro pc #2, Windows NT 4.0 domain controller pc #3 Windows Vista 64 ultimate pc #4 windows Vista 32 ultimate Now up until about a week ago every single device could access each others shares no problems. No changes on any pc has been done. Windows Firewall has been turned off as well as defender where appropiate. The problem i have now is that pc#4 is now started having issues with accessing a share on pc#3. Continually getting prompted for username and password. I have even tried an domain admin account which fails. Pc#1 and pc#2 have no issues and are not prompted with username / password related promtps to access this share. Pc#3 can access shares on pc#1, #2 and #4.
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Nov 29, 2008
i have two laptops using vista (home edition), i want to share internet using wireless ad-hoc network, but when i set up this network it doesn't show me Share internet connection. it worked the first time, but since then i can't do it anymore i have the ics enabled
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Mar 23, 2008
I'm just about at wits end here. I've got an external HDD (Cavalry 2 X 500 GB = 1TB) that I usually plug in via e-SATA. It is currently setup in a SAFE33 configuration. It was working great on my old XP machine, and when I changed that machine to Vista Business (same everything, just plugged in a different boot disk and unplugged the old one) it continued to work great.
Then I did the following two things:
1) Tinkered with some permissions to allow only administrators access to some backups on the eHDD.
2) Went back to my old boot disk and tried to find the drive in XP.
When I did this the drive was not visible at all in XP. Now it is not visible in Vista either (not under Computer, Disk Management, or even BIOS). It is also not visible on my laptop (it had been previously). I have tried both e-SATA and USB connectors in multiple ports.
When I turn the drive on while either OS is running the machine freezes about 1 out of 5 times. Other times the eHDD turns on and I hear the disks spin up to speed, but the drive access LEDs never come on.
Don't know if this is related or not but I am also unable to load XP now, it stops on a driver called SPTD.sys.
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May 4, 2009
So my hard drive was originally like 200 GB or something, but of course the operating system took up about 25 gigs, so it says it's out of 174 GB. It currently says I have 102 GB free. However, I added up everything on my computer, and it says I've used only 45 gigs. That means I should have 129 gigs left. I know all about the system restore thing and I've deleted "all but the most recent" like 80 times in the past day lol, but it doesn't do anything. I've run CC Cleaner and Defraggler and everything. So I'm wondering where the 27 or so gigs I should have is and what I can do to get them back.
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Apr 23, 2008
I have a home office network with one new Dell laptop with Windows Vista Home Basic which I bought a couple of weeks ago, one desktop with Windows XP Pro and one older laptop with Windows XP Pro. The laptops are connected wirelessly, the desktop is using a wired Ethernet connection.
Obviously, there have been never a problem with XP machines. Initially, the Vista machine was also able to connect to everybody else. I didn't even bother to look at the settings because everything worked. Then I went to a business trip, and connected to other networks, including wireless public ones in the airports. When I came back, I was unable to share files or even see other computers on the LAN. The internet connection is working fine though. Oh yes, and I also installed a couple of updates, probably some of those constituting Service Pack 1 as well.
When I checked the network, to my surprise, it turned out that it became "Public" (could this be "guilt by association" - the airport wireless networks are public, so my home network is public, too?). I changed it to "Private". Didn't help. Checked shares, made sure that the users have the same passwords. Ditto. I deleted the history of the airport networks. Still the same.........
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Dec 4, 2009
ComputerA, running Windows XP 32-bit has a shared folder in read-only mode called SFiles with a sign-on of CAShare and a password of ZXJK1122. ComputerB, running Windows Vista 64, in the Network entry of Windows Explorer shows ComputerA. When I expand ComputerA I can see the SFiles shared folder undereath and when I try to click on the folder it asks me for a sign-on and password. I answer with CAShare and ZXJK1122, and it asks me if I want to save this information and I say yes. Subsequently, when I click on the SFiles shared folder it gives me read-only access to the files in the shared folder. This works excellently.
Subsequently, on ComputerA, I decide to change the password for the sign-on of CAShare from ZXJK1122 to NPPP345T. Now on ComputerB when I try to click on the SFiles shared folder in Windows Explorer I get a message of: "Windows can not access \ComputerASFiles with an error code of Ox80070005, Acces is denied."
That's fair enough, since I changed the password for the sign-on. So I want Windows Explorer on ComputerB to ask me for a new password, and I will reply NPPP345T and now have read-only access again which is fine. But it does not do this but repeatedly denies me access each time I click on the shared folder. Surely there must be some way to tell Window Explorer to get a new password from me for this share. How do I do that ? It seems impossible that Vista will keep me from accessing shared folders of another computer on my network simply because it has decided that I can not change the signon/password to the other computer's shares.
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Mar 23, 2008
I have a laptop with Vista business edition connected to a domain. I have installed it with no problems. Now when my user got it she cannot reach the shares or connect to the server with \servernameshare I get the message 0x80070035 I logged in with my domain admin user but i have the same problem. We can reach websites and ping the servers works. What can I do to solve the problem. I have bought 4 laptops but only 1 have this problem.
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Nov 10, 2008
I try to share my printer on my network I get a error 0x00000709 make sure that you have typed the name correctly and that the printer is connected to the network. I can see the printer all looks good but I get this error.
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Feb 7, 2008
HP deskjet OK direct connection by not via network share permalink. I have a HP deskjet 5550 printer connected to a XP pro (32 bit), it is shared. I have no problem using this shared printer either from the local XP machine or another XP machine. I had no problem using the share when I have Vista Ultimate 32 bit installed. However the Vista Ultimate 64 bit gives an error stating the server does not have the correct drivers, and requests that I supply and inf file. Searching the HP web site they state the vista already has the drivers. I connect direct using a USB cable and can print without issue. Even after that no luck connecting via a share.
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May 8, 2008
I am running Vista Business Edition I have a shared folder c:share on my hard drive, and I mapped that to my z: Now from command prompt which is launched with Admin privileges, i am not able to run any application located in Z:. for example Z:
est.exe...It gives an error - System cannot find the drive specified. How should i resolve this or in vista, we cant run any application located in network share from command prompt?
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Jun 29, 2008
There was no problem to see all computers and share files between them. Now new computer FIVE Vista 64 came to Home Network. I see all computers in my Home Network but I cannot open any computers ONE, TWO, and THREE (with Vista 32) from FIVE as well cannot open FIVE from ONE, TWO and THREE. (I am looking for share created files.) Computers ask me for “User Name” and “Password”. So far I never created User Names and Password for any of my computers
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Mar 28, 2010
It has been years, we have been transferring files between our home PCs and Laptops in our home network. But as we updated our Laptop with Vista SP1 & SP2, the network has become a one way only. We can transfer files to the rest of the network PCs, but the Vista Laptop does not let us in. We do see it listed in our network.
We had to re-format the laptop drive and as we loaded the Vista back again, we were able to transfer files two way, but as the SP1 and SP2 update was loaded, file transfer has become one way only. Did go through the setup on the Laptop drive as we did before. What are we missing in SP1 & SP2 updates?
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Jun 2, 2008
I am trying to help someone running Vista Home Premium setup his network to share files and folders with his XP Home laptop. Oddly enough, there are no share options AT ALL. No share buttons or no share options in the context menus -- NOTHING. We've named the network and simply went out to share a printer (which we have the option to share) but it turns itself off. Same in Network and Sharing Center. We turn the options ON and then turn themselves OFF. We've done all the rebooting, etc. and still no go. I have gone through all the disabling of the UAC and ownership and permissions, et. al. but, can't get anywhere without the SHARE OPTION being available. Is his install of Windows Vista Home Premium broken or needing to be reinstalled? Could that be the problem? Could it have been setup improperly? I have successfully done this before on my Vista Business computer and my XP Pro laptop and although i did have a few 'permission' problems, they were at least workable.
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May 5, 2008
I am having issues sharing files located on the C drive of my host computer. Both computers are running Vista Ultimate SP1. I have set up the sharing, but I get access denied when I attempt to access the files. what I need to change to fix this?
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Mar 11, 2010
I am running Windows 7, but this would pertain to earlier versions too.I have access to a share, I'll call it \SERVERDocuments. I know how to mount that to a drive letter. That is not what I want to do. Instead I want to map it to my C:UsersusernameDocuments. I have searched online and others have asked this only to be told how to map to a drive letter.
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Mar 24, 2009
Everytime I plugin my portable hard drive I need to create a new share and set the permissions. Is there anyway to have vista remember the share so everytime I mount the drive it sets this automatically.
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Apr 6, 2008
I have XP Home on my desktop and it has an external Western Digital USB attached drive that I have set up as shared on the network. I also have allowed updates from netowrk users in the share settings. I can see the drive from my Vista Home Premium laptop, but when I try to access it I get an error: "drivename" is not accessible. You may not have permission to use this network resource. Not enough server storage is available to process this command.
Now I shared the internal C drive on the desktop with the same share settings and I can access that drive from Vista with no problem. The only things I can't access on the C drive are documents and settings, WINNT and other systems folders, whcih is, I assume, as it should be. Otherwise I can access all the folders and files on the C drive. I have Norton Internet Security on the desktop and Norton 360 on the laptop, but my home network is in the trusted group for both firewalls and, since I can see the drive and can also access the C drive, it doesn't appear to be a firewall problem, but some kind of permissions problem, and of course I can't set permissions on the XP Home system. Can someone explain to me what is wrong? I have been searching for days on the web for answers, but as yet have not found a pertinent answer.
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Feb 2, 2009
I have both a Vista 32 & Vista 64 Acer laptop on the same LAN. Both connect well with the Internet. when I try to see the other computer's Public folder to share a file, I can't even find the other computer in the "Network" window, only the router and the computer I'm working on.
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Feb 9, 2009
I have a network share setup b/w a Vista Ultimate x32 and XP machines. Using the XP machine, I open the Vista hosted share but found some files "missing", ie. even though they physically exist in the Vista machine, I simply cannot see them from XP. Turns out that these files are missing the EVERYONE in the File Permissions (right click file, properties, security). These are files downloaded using Firefox, and whether they are JPG, AVI, TXT, DOC, XLS they are all missing the EVERYONE permission. If I download the same files using Internet Explorer, the files get created with the EVERYONE permission.
My current workarounds ... which none are desirable are this:Use Internet Explorer, Add EVERYONE permission for each file manually (you have to do this one by one, can't select multiple files and perform bulk operation),Use CMD line utilities like takeown and icacls Note this is a secure home network, and while file sharing using EVEYRONE isn't the safest way to do this, I can finetune this later. The key problem at hand is what I've described above. I'd be happy just to be able to get FireFox create files with the full permissions, same way IE does.
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