Connecting Your Phone To A Computer - HTC Touch Touch2 User Manual

44 Chapter 1 Getting Started

1.15 Connecting Your Phone to a Computer

Whenever you connect your phone to the computer with the USB cable, the
Connect to PC screen displays and prompts you to choose the type of USB
connection:
ActiveSync
Select this mode when you need to do the following:
• Sync Outlook email messages, contacts, calendar appointments, files, and
other data between your phone and your computer.
• Have read and write access to the whole phone.
For more information about using ActiveSync, see Chapter 5.
Disk Drive
This mode is available for selection only when you installed a microSD card on your
phone. Select this mode when you want to use your storage card as a USB thumb
drive, and copy files between your phone's storage card and your computer faster.
When Disk Drive mode is enabled while your phone is connected to the computer:
• You will not be able to use your phone to access files from the storage card or
run applications that are installed on the storage card.
• Your computer will only connect to the phone's storage card. When you
access your phone from the computer, you will only see the contents of the
phone's storage card.
Internet Sharing
When you do not have Internet access on your computer, you can select this mode
to use your phone as a modem for your computer. For more information about
using Internet Sharing, see "Using Your Phone as a Modem (Internet Sharing)" in
Chapter 8.