WIndows 7 not reconnecting NAS Drive at Startup
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Tried a few solutions but no luck.
Tried this one ..
which actually worked the first time i rebooted, but hasn't worked since. if anyone has any clues i'd be grateful
It's a 2TB Seagate GoFlex drive, for the record. If i click on it when the PC is booted, it connects just fine.
Tried this one ..
start > Run > type "gpedit.msc" (without quotes) click ok. Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Logon > Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon"
which actually worked the first time i rebooted, but hasn't worked since. if anyone has any clues i'd be grateful
It's a 2TB Seagate GoFlex drive, for the record. If i click on it when the PC is booted, it connects just fine.
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I've got a Go Flex drive and occasionally the Dashboard software throws a wobbly and doesn't do it's stuff properly at boot time. Though usually if I open Dashboard and click on the connect button it goes off and finds the drive and all the drive mappings in Computer start working again.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937624
Not tried it myself as I don't get a failure to connect more than 1 time in 100 boots so not really much hassle for me (maybe because I do use Dashboard? )
The first line counts down based on seconds prior to continuing the rest. 5 is probably overkill to be honest unless its a slow machine but whatever. The delete lines suppress any errors about the drive already existing.
This was in a workgroup environment where the drives were being added by a batch file in the all users startup folder.
Solved it by using a batch file to start Synctoy but first run Explorer to kick Win7 into recognising the NAS drive (x)
Batch file is ....
rem Open explorer, minimised, and reconnect the network drive x:
start /min explorer x:\
rem Change to SyncToy directory and run SyncToy
cd c:\program files\synctoy 2.1
start synctoy.exe
To fix that, you can schedule a login task to run a batch file just writing to z:\tmp.txt or what ever you have.