A few months ago I moved my 2TB WD My Book from my desktop to a new WNDR4500 Netgear router as an attached storage device. The router recognized the drive just fine, and I've been able to access all of my files without issue. I use the drive as my primary NAS.
About a month ago I connected the My Book to my notebook, thinking I would back the contents up on a WD Passport. While attempting to view the contents of the My Book, only the two main folders were visible ("my photos" & "my music").
I tried taking ownership of the folders, and adjusting access rights, but nothing seemed to work. I was still only able to view the two "empty" folders.
I ended up reconnecting the drive to the router and copying the contents using the desktop (over Ethernet) to a local drive for archival. Everything seems to work fine as long as I leave it connected to the router.
Is the router doing something to the drive that makes the contents inaccessible to other devices when they are connected via USB? I must be missing something.
Thanks for any help!
About a month ago I connected the My Book to my notebook, thinking I would back the contents up on a WD Passport. While attempting to view the contents of the My Book, only the two main folders were visible ("my photos" & "my music").
I tried taking ownership of the folders, and adjusting access rights, but nothing seemed to work. I was still only able to view the two "empty" folders.
I ended up reconnecting the drive to the router and copying the contents using the desktop (over Ethernet) to a local drive for archival. Everything seems to work fine as long as I leave it connected to the router.
Is the router doing something to the drive that makes the contents inaccessible to other devices when they are connected via USB? I must be missing something.
Thanks for any help!
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