How to map a network drive in Windows XP

Point taken. As you say, however, maybe 1% appreciate the difference. Regardless of whether a drive is physical or logical it still receives a drive letter and to the user the differentiation would be meaningless. I'll do a tutorial on the difference between physical and logical. Thanks so much for your input. ..... Doc

I don't want to sound too harsh when I critique but there is a huge misconception here from the creator of the tutorial. The impression given is that a mapped drive will appear as a physical drive when, in fact, it will appear as a logical drive. What's the difference? While a logical drive will be fine for most general purposes by appearing as a drive letter, it will not be available to some applications or services, say MS SQL Server or backup software which may require physically attached storage for network performance reasons.A physical (local) drive will appear in the Device Manager and be available for all programs requiring a *logical* disk to store data. The author gives the impression that the drive is mapped when Windows starts. In fact, it is mapped after you successfully log in. That's a big difference. The mapped drive letter belongs to your user session. It does not belong to the "SYSTEM" account. I suspect only 1% of you reading this appreciate the difference and that is perfectly OK as it probably doesn't address your concerns. For those of you who are in a jam and need to free up space and need a local drive to do it, buy or borrow an external USB or someone's spare drive they don't have data on, add it to the system, reboot, do your thing to free up space then get on with your life and prepare for the next time. I'm not saying that making a drive appear as a system drive for all practical purposes is impossible (many say it is but I've done it once - wish I had documented it). I'm saying it's simply not worth the time. Good luck.