Accessing External HDD on a Router - From Startup Disk
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:31 am
hello there.
i have a western digital external hdd connected to the usb3 slot on my linksys wrt1900ac router.
i have 3 machines running windows 7 ultimate and i am able to schedule backups to the external hdd using - \\192.168.1.1\Backups\Images\HTPC
on my htpc machine i ran a startup disk gui - R-DriveImage-6004.iso - i was however unable to see the hdd to restore the backups from. i was hoping there would be a browser so i could browse to it. i couldn't get map network drive to work - not sure if it is my fault or because it isn't a network drive. the only hope i could see was in the file name dialog you are allowed to type in the location and the name of the image - if i typed -
\\192.168.1.1\Backups\Images\HTPC\SSD-image_20150213_011517_1.rdr
i know in an emergency i could plug my external hdd in to the machine and it should work but i'd like to get this working while connected to my router
thank you
i have a western digital external hdd connected to the usb3 slot on my linksys wrt1900ac router.
i have 3 machines running windows 7 ultimate and i am able to schedule backups to the external hdd using - \\192.168.1.1\Backups\Images\HTPC
on my htpc machine i ran a startup disk gui - R-DriveImage-6004.iso - i was however unable to see the hdd to restore the backups from. i was hoping there would be a browser so i could browse to it. i couldn't get map network drive to work - not sure if it is my fault or because it isn't a network drive. the only hope i could see was in the file name dialog you are allowed to type in the location and the name of the image - if i typed -
\\192.168.1.1\Backups\Images\HTPC\SSD-image_20150213_011517_1.rdr
i know in an emergency i could plug my external hdd in to the machine and it should work but i'd like to get this working while connected to my router
thank you