Removable Drives

17 Dec 2005 5:41 AM

Alex

Hi,
I have a Win XP home desktop with 4 user accounts and a tablet pc with one
user account. They are networked to each other but they are both short on
memory. Since there are 4 user accounts on my home edition pc, can i
conntect 4 revovable usb hard drives and share them on the network so each
person who uses my computer can save there files on there personal usb drive?

17 Dec 2005 1:54 PM

Simas Kvilius

If you are talking about space in hdd simply buy another internal hhd. If
you are talking about physical memory increase paging file size or buy more
memory.
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> Hi,
> I have a Win XP home desktop with 4 user accounts and a tablet pc with one
> user account. They are networked to each other but they are both short on
> memory. Since there are 4 user accounts on my home edition pc, can i
> conntect 4 revovable usb hard drives and share them on the network so each
> person who uses my computer can save there files on there personal usb
> drive?

17 Dec 2005 9:19 PM

Ian

Sharing a USB 'pen drive' works, just as for any other drive, BUT there is a
tendency for it to lose the share when it's disconnected and reconnected.
This might be an annoyance.

As mentioned, a better approach might be to fit a second HD to hold all the
data. Then, the data can be transferred to a USB disk as-required.