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Title: Drive not accessible and wont map. Help!
Post by: JOEARTER on June 19, 2014, 04:41:44 AM

I just bought a dlink dns-323.  I went to best buy and bought a seagate 1TB hdd and installed everything last night.  Everything was fine.  I formatted the drive, mapped it and tested out streaming a movie from it.  It all worked perfect.  Before I went to bed i set up a data transfer of about 220GB.  It all looked great and would have taken about 3 hours.  I woke up this morning and it looks like the drive failed but I'm not sure.  I go to my computer and the drive is there but it has a red X and when prompted says that it can't be accessed.  I dismounted the drive figuring I could just remount it.  Not the case.  Now the easy find app will not map the drive.   When I look at status it reads fine, the data i transfered looks to be there with the amount of space that is used.  I restarted, shut down and turned back on.  It will not map the drive.  Do I need to reformat my drive? That is the only thing i have not tried.  Thank you in advance for all of your help.

Title: Re: Drive not accessible and wont map. Help!
Post by: fordem on June 19, 2014, 05:29:32 AM

Assuming you're running Windows, temporarily disable any personal firewalls and see if you can access the data - don't forget to re-enable it afterwards.

Windows, especially Windows 7 (and maybe 8, I refuse to use that), have a way of disabling "network discovery" when ever it senses a "change" in the network, and this prevents access to network shares.

Title: Re: Drive not accessible and wont map. Help!
Post by: JOEARTER on June 19, 2014, 05:36:46 AM

I'm unfortunately running vista.  I'm just curious about why it will not map the drive.  It worked fine when I went to bed.  Now that I unmounted it, I can't map it anymore.

Title: Re: Drive not accessible and wont map. Help!
Post by: JavaLawyer on June 19, 2014, 06:30:06 AM

Please keep in mind that you have to map to the volume name, not just the IP address.
\\[SHARECENTER_IP_ADDRESS]/Volume_1

DNS ShareCenter - Mapping a DNS ShareCenter Device (IP vs. Volume Name) (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=41845.0)

Title: Re: Drive not accessible and wont map. Help!
Post by: JOEARTER on June 19, 2014, 06:50:57 AM

Everything mapped perfectly last night.  It looks as if it failed but as far as i can see the data is there.  Could it be the volume of data I was transfering or do you think it is simply a mapping problem

Title: Re: Drive not accessible and wont map. Help!
Post by: JavaLawyer on June 19, 2014, 07:05:15 AM

Did check to make sure the ShareCenter IP address did not change? I recommend reserving an IP address in your router.

Title: Re: Drive not accessible and wont map. Help!
Post by: dosborne on June 19, 2014, 08:15:14 AM

Definitely "what he said" :)

Either reserve the IP address in your DHCP server client list based on the MAC address or setup the DNS323 to a static IP address.