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Slow access to D: drive

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by bergerpeat Jun 21, 2002 last reply Aug 4, 2002 1 view

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HI, I have a very weird problem. When my laptop is wired to the network, I can access the D: drive normally with the "open file" dialog box of programs like word, Excel... But when I logon locally on the laptop (disconnected from network) I try to access my D: drive from a "Open file" dialog box but it takes about 2 minutes to see the content of my D: to appears. It looks like he is looking for the network for a while and finally time out. I've never seen this problem before. I would appreciatethat someone could help me.

Thank you.

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by stephen.berry Jun 21, 2002

First we need to know what you're D drive is. Is it a second partition of your hard drive? If it is your hard drive letter than your last opened files may have been shortcuts you created on your hard drive to documents on a share drive or a floppydrive. What happens when you open the D drive from windows explorer?

by bergerpeat Jun 25, 2002

The D drive is a second partition(NTFS) on the hard drive. when I browse on the D drive from the explorer, everything is normal. Its only happen when I try to browse the D: from a Open file window from any programs like Word, Excel...