Hello All,
I am having an issue with turning off a shared drive. I recently lost my wireless network connection. I tried to restablish it using the wireless network setup wizard in XP Pro SP2. I am using a USB wireless adapter.
I got to the screen selects drive letter to apply to the USB wireless device and the only available choices were the A: and the F: with F: being the default. My hard drive is partioned into C: and F: (extended partion) drives. So I was a little confused by the only two available options currently being already assigned drive letters. Without thinking about it for more than a split second like I should have, I selected "Next" at this screen. Now when I open Windows Explorer up, the F: icon is no longer the standard hard drive icon, but looks like a wireless USB adapter icon with the green lines next to it. I can get to my files on the drive fine, but when I go into the drives Properties, and click on the Sharing Tab, the drive is marked as being Shared. When I select the option to not share the drive, I get the following message:
"This share was created for administrative purposes only. The share will reappear when the Server service is stopped and restarted or the computer is rebooted. Are you sure you wish to stop sharing F$?"
Then there are yes/no buttons. I have been playing with this for a couple hours and cannot figure out how to turn the F: back into the standard partioned unshared drive. Anyone have any ideas? Its driving me nuts!
I am having an issue with turning off a shared drive. I recently lost my wireless network connection. I tried to restablish it using the wireless network setup wizard in XP Pro SP2. I am using a USB wireless adapter.
I got to the screen selects drive letter to apply to the USB wireless device and the only available choices were the A: and the F: with F: being the default. My hard drive is partioned into C: and F: (extended partion) drives. So I was a little confused by the only two available options currently being already assigned drive letters. Without thinking about it for more than a split second like I should have, I selected "Next" at this screen. Now when I open Windows Explorer up, the F: icon is no longer the standard hard drive icon, but looks like a wireless USB adapter icon with the green lines next to it. I can get to my files on the drive fine, but when I go into the drives Properties, and click on the Sharing Tab, the drive is marked as being Shared. When I select the option to not share the drive, I get the following message:
"This share was created for administrative purposes only. The share will reappear when the Server service is stopped and restarted or the computer is rebooted. Are you sure you wish to stop sharing F$?"
Then there are yes/no buttons. I have been playing with this for a couple hours and cannot figure out how to turn the F: back into the standard partioned unshared drive. Anyone have any ideas? Its driving me nuts!