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Accessing your Research Drive on a Windows Computer

This guide shows you how to get access to (and retrieve/save) files on your Research Drive using a Windows computer.

1. Background

This guide will help you to access/mount/map your Research Drive on your computer. It is assumed that you have already requested a Research Drive and that it has been allocated to you. If you have not yet requested a Research Drive, please see the Research Hub for more information.

This section focuses on Windows() the steps to access your Research Drive on a computer running Linux() or MacOS() will be slightly different.

Info

this is the version used to access a ResDrive from a Windows computer as one single Codelab showing off the stepping

2. Preparation

  • Open your Windows Explorer (Win+E)
  • Navigate to 'This PC'
  • Make sure your 'View' is set to 'Details' (see screenshot below or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F1 )
  • Click on 'Map Network Drive'

3. The Map Network Drive dialogue

  • For the Drive letter, choose a letter that is not already in use (e.g., `R:``)
  • For the Folder please enter your Research Drive location (e.g., \\files.auckland.ac.nz\research\**your_team_folder**)
    • please pay close attention to the backslashes (\\) and make sure not to use forward slashes (/) in the path for Windows
    • tick the option 'Reconnect at sign-in'
      • click on Finish
    • When you’re done, you should see the new drive letter under This PC and will be able to access its contents like you would any other folder. If you want to disconnect the network drive, right-click on it and select Disconnect.