Your University filestore
ISS provides filestore (disk space) for every user at the University. We call it your Home Folder.
Your allocation is 1 gigabyte (GB): enough for your academic work.
Three important points about the filestore
- It is as secure as it can be from accidents and malicious attack.
- ISS make extensive back-up copies.
- It’s accessible from anywhere on the Net (not just on ISS PCs).
You are strongly advised to create and keep your academic work on your University filestore (i.e. not on a USB flash drive, or any other removable device).
Our Help Desk advisers hate to see students in tears at Project time! See our Top Filestore Tips.
Where is my filestore?
When you use a University PC, your Home Folder is attached as Drive H.
Note that “My Documents" (see Footnote) and “Drive H” are the same thing, on University PCs.
And how do I find Drive H?
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Select My Computer from the Start menu,
as shown on the right. - Software installed on University PCs uses Drive H as the default filestore. So, for example, if you start a new document in Word, it will be created automatically on Drive H.
The “Towers”
The file servers (computers) that ISS uses for filestore are named Tower1, Tower2, etc.
You should know which Tower you use, because, for example, if ISS need to take Tower6 out of service for an hour, you need to know if your Drive H is onTower6.
Use the CMDInfo utility in the Start menu to find out which Tower you use (e.g. \tower3\home14\a8456789): just click on the University Crest in the Start menu.
Footnote 1: If you are a Windows user, with your own PC, you will be familiar with My Documents, which will be on Drive C. Drive C is not used on ISS PCs.