Drive Mapping
Hard Drive Recovery - Drive Mapping
Drive mapping refers to a method by which Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/2 associate a local drive letter with a shared storage area to another computer over a network.
Once the drive is mapped, it appears in My Computer and Windows Explorer, so it can be accessed by the software application on the client’s computer. The application can then read and write files from the shared storage area, as if that drive were present at the local physical hard disk drive. This method helps users access the remote contents much more quickly than by typing the shared folder’s Universal Naming Convention (UNC) name or browsing the network for the folder.
Alternatively, a mapped drive is also the place on a networked computer hard drive that has been assigned a special name. The drive has restricted access to a particular user groups. It can contain any data that is compatible with the existing system.
Mapped drives also refer to hard drives, partitions or volumes, or network drives represented by names, letter(s) or number(s) and are often followed by additional strings or data, directory branches or sub levels. In these cases, drive mapping is used to locate directories, files or objects or applications.
Network mapped drives will be available only when the host computer is also available.
