As you seen when My Computer symbol or Windows Explorer that you have drive letters allocated to drives. Floppy disk drive is assigned A, hard drive is assigned C and CDROM is assigned D. If you have more than one hard drive or CDROM then these letters may differ.

If there is home network or network at office you may have network drives or places that you access often or duplicate data to and from on a regular basis. To do this procedure simple you can map a network drive to network place. What this does it allocate a drive letter to your networked drive? You can utilize any accessible letter from A to Z as long as it is not already in utilized. Then this drive letter will appear in Windows Explorer along with other drives and remain there unless connection to that drive is missing. Then you will notice a red x through your drive letter.

Now look at two simple methods to map a network drive. One way is go to My Computer or Windows Explorer and then Tools and Map Network Drive. You must see a dialog box.

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Here it is asking you to choose drive letter you would like to allocate to new drive and place of networked or shared folder. You can either type it in if you know UNC path or browse to it. If you check Reconnect at login box then each time you login to PC it will map that drive again for you.

The other method to map a network drive is to locate shared folder by browsing My Network Places. Then you would right click folder you want to map and choose Map Network Drive. You will obtain similar window as above except Folder box will be filled in automatically with path of folder you right clicked on.