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[thecreator]

Hi All,

Somehow my DNS-323 Network Hard Drive in one of my Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 got disconnected, but remains in My Computer. Drive Letter is Q. If I remove Q, the Drive disappears from My Computer, but when I restore access to that Drive Letter, the Network Drive remains Disconnected.

How do I reconnect a Broken Network Drive connection, short of a reformat and reinstall of the operating system?

I had mapped a folder to Paperport and did not have access to it, so I Remove it from Paperport and that's how the Network Drive got disconnected.

How do I fix it?

[fordem]

There are several possible reasons a network drive will not reconnect - and almost all related to the  network itself.

I have a number of network drives mapped and at startup of the PC (XPPro/SP3) it will always generate an error message saying the drives failed to map, but by the time I get to MyComputer, they are mapped - in my case this is caused by the network connection starting up after the attempt is made to map the drives, so the problem corrects itself.

You need to investigate why the connection fails in your case - as long as the network connection is functional you should be able to use My Network Places to remap any network drive - you will of course need to know the appropriate username & passwords.

I doubt that it would require a reformat of the NAS or the PC - not unless you have deeper underlying issues - it is possible with Windows XP to have the network stack become corrupt to the point where a re-install is the only thing that fixes it, but typically that will also affect other network activity such as web browsing and is quite obvious.

[thecreator]

There are several possible reasons a network drive will not reconnect - and almost all related to the  network itself.

I have a number of network drives mapped and at startup of the PC (XPPro/SP3) it will always generate an error message saying the drives failed to map, but by the time I get to MyComputer, they are mapped - in my case this is caused by the network connection starting up after the attempt is made to map the drives, so the problem corrects itself.

You need to investigate why the connection fails in your case - as long as the network connection is functional you should be able to use My Network Places to remap any network drive - you will of course need to know the appropriate username & passwords.

I doubt that it would require a reformat of the NAS or the PC - not unless you have deeper underlying issues - it is possible with Windows XP to have the network stack become corrupt to the point where a re-install is the only thing that fixes it, but typically that will also affect other network activity such as web browsing and is quite obvious.

Hi fordem,

Thanks for the response. I know that the problem is not with the DSN-323 or the Hard Drive as I still have access to the unit from my other computer and I can add it back to that operating system under another Drive Letter without problems. I wonder if I have to uninstall Network Magic in that operating system, if that would release the Drive Letter. Because other than Network Magic, I have no other programs using that Drive in Windows XP Home Edition.