All,
I recently acquired a new 12tb external harddrive that I had attached to a small Windows PC that I keep on all the time (I also have a main Windows desktop) My plan was to use this as a replacement for my Seagate Personal Cloud (it's five years old and the OS is primitive in terms of running apps) however this 2nd windows PC is having issues (separate matter in the process of being sorted). I disconnected this harddrive and attached it to the Personal Cloud with the intention of copying some files over on to the Personal Cloud that I knew I had not yet backed up (I would then back up these on to a usb stick) I connecting the hardrive up to the Personal Cloud - all was well. I also mapped it as a Drive in Windows 10 - no issues.
Then the first started. As soon as I started try and open the folder I wanted to open to view in Windows explorer I would just get a very slow loading bar across the top Window and eventually a "Windows cannot connect to this location" error. I even tried adding the drive as a network location as this might solve the issue (according to Google)
To cut a long story short and as I guessed it would attaching this device directly to my main desktop solved the issue and I was able to do what I needed.
I can only assume it's some how network/index related? Perhaps the size of the drive?
Never had it before.
I recently acquired a new 12tb external harddrive that I had attached to a small Windows PC that I keep on all the time (I also have a main Windows desktop) My plan was to use this as a replacement for my Seagate Personal Cloud (it's five years old and the OS is primitive in terms of running apps) however this 2nd windows PC is having issues (separate matter in the process of being sorted). I disconnected this harddrive and attached it to the Personal Cloud with the intention of copying some files over on to the Personal Cloud that I knew I had not yet backed up (I would then back up these on to a usb stick) I connecting the hardrive up to the Personal Cloud - all was well. I also mapped it as a Drive in Windows 10 - no issues.
Then the first started. As soon as I started try and open the folder I wanted to open to view in Windows explorer I would just get a very slow loading bar across the top Window and eventually a "Windows cannot connect to this location" error. I even tried adding the drive as a network location as this might solve the issue (according to Google)
To cut a long story short and as I guessed it would attaching this device directly to my main desktop solved the issue and I was able to do what I needed.
I can only assume it's some how network/index related? Perhaps the size of the drive?
Never had it before.