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External drive sharing...

I have a an external hdd that i use for storing music, videos, etc that i also want to set as a shared drive so I can stream the content wirelessly to the xbox.

Getting the external drive set up as a shared drive isnt a problem, but once the pc is shut down and restarted the external drive is no longer set up as shared . Is there any way to get the pc to remember its set as a shared drive?

Its no big deal, its just a pain in the arse redoing it every time I boot the pc. And no, i'm not going to leave it switched on.

Edit: I'm using XP btw.

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If I understand what you attempting to do, you may need to "hard-code" the drive. Afterwards it should remember the share within it. Plug in external drive, right click My Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management. Find you drive, Right Click on it > Change Drive Letter and Paths > Change to "Z" or something. Whatever you changed it to, it will always remap to this drive letter. Create your share (My Stuff) on Z:, then Tools > Map Network Drive, Z:\My Stuff. Unplug it and plug back in, will still be Z:\.....

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After i have created the share, i go to map network drives but the drive letter i have assigned to it isnt in the list?

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Right Click My Computer/map network drive

Choose a drive letter choose your hard drive and click reconnect at logon.

Does that work?

Never used one of them external drive thingies so don't know if you can browse to it in the map network drives dialog box.