Introduction to saving on the Network versus saving to the Hard Drive Network Hard Drive

The Hard Drive is located in the tower of the computer. Another name for the hard drive is known as the C: drive. All games and programs are stored on the hard drive.

Unlike saving files at home, here at Lakeview Middle School you will not be allowed to save any files to the hard drive. We have installed a program called Clean Slate, which prevents any one from saving files to individual hard drives.

Saving any file to My Documents is equal to saving to the hard drive. My Documents is simply a folder located on the hard drive. If you attempt to save at either location the computer will act like it saved the file correctly. But once the computer is shut down and restarted, all files saved to these locations will be permanently deleted.

Therefore, you will need to save all files to the Network. Yes, this means you will have to redo any deleted work!!

The Network is about the size to a refrigerator and is located in a closet somewhere on campus. The Network in also referred to as the Home or H: Drive. When asked to save to this location you are being asked to save to your personal profile.. By doing so this will help insure that your file is save to the correct location safely. Remember, that the only way you can access the network is to type in your user name and password. With out a user name and password you cannot access the network. Once logged in, the only files you can access are the files stored under you user name and password. When saving to the Network you must to choose your Last and First Initial followed by your ID#: from the save as menu list.

There are about nine hundred computers on campus. Every single computer is connected to the network.

Any time you save a file, it is important to save directly to the network. This will insure that the file is correctly saved. Once a file is saved to the network, an individual can access this file anywhere on campus, so long as the computer accessing the file has the program that created it.

Example: If you create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft Power Point in Mr. Munoz’s classroom and save it to the network, the file can be accessed by any other computer such as in a science class so long as that particular computer also has the program called Microsoft Power Point.

If you save a file to the hard drive, the only way to access that particular file is to return to the same exact computer and reopen the file. Of course assuming that Clean Slate is not installed on that hard drive.

A disadvantage of saving a file to the network is if the network goes down, all computers connected to the network can not access any files until the network is fixed.

However, the user can still create a new file by using available programs from the hard drive. The new file created, must then be saved temporarily to your personal Flash Drive. When saving to a Flash Drive, it is often referred to as saving, to the E: DRIVE.

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