Mapping a Network Drive (& Copy Data)

The data for the GIS lab exercises are located on the network.  In order to gain access to the data you have to ‘map’ the location of the network drive.

1. Turn on and sign on to the computer. Wait until everything has finished loading and you can see the "start" button.
    
2. On the desktop double click on "My Computer".
    
3. Click (click once with the left mouse button) on the "Tools" menu.
    
4. Click on the "Map Network Drive..." option.
    
5. This will open up a new window. You need to enter two things.
    

   The first is the drive letter. Left Click on the small black downwards pointing arrow beside the drive letter. This will show a pull down menu that will display all the drive letters you can choose. I would suggest using G:
    

   Finally enter the network path. This tells the computer where the shared drive is. For this particular shared drive the path is \\discovery\shares\g\gis 
    

6. Make sure that the small check box labeled "Reconnect at logon" is checked.
    
7. Click the "Finish" button.
    
8. The window should disappear and (after a few seconds) a new drive should show up in the My Computer window. Try double clicking on it to open it. If you can, then you have successfully set up a network drive.

Now you can copy the necessary folders & files from the GIS network folder to your U: drive.