Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

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

Well, network disks on routers have a really strange behavior. I don't know. If you have a Linux machine try to connect it to that disk and see what happens.

thank you for your response

i don't have any linux boxes only windows 7 and a freenas server

on the windows network the path for the external hard drive is - \\STEWART\Backups\Images\HTPC

can i use this map a network drive and how do i do it?

thank you

ethereal wrote: on the windows network the path for the external hard drive is - \\STEWART\Backups\Images\HTPC

Server IP address: IP address of STEWART
Server share name: Backups

Thanks a lot - that's working great now