AuNCdn
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I have a PC running XP with a Western Digital My Book external drive connected to it. My laptop running Windows 7 (and my daughter's netbook running Vista) can no longer access the WD hard drive. The rest of my network works fine (all three computers have internet access and can access the shared printer). I have lost touch with the person who set this all up for me and I have tried to apply what I have read in other posts (that seem to me to be related but are not quite the same) to my problem but can not get anywhere. When I click on (N
this is the message I get:
An error occurred while reconnecting N: to
\\192.168....Home Network Share
Microsoft Windows Network: The network name cannot be found
This connection has not been restored
I suspect that there is something many of you folks will see as simple that I am missing, but I just can not seem to find an answer anywhere. I am completely stumped by this problem and getting quite frustrated. Any help would be very much appreciated.

An error occurred while reconnecting N: to
\\192.168....Home Network Share
Microsoft Windows Network: The network name cannot be found
This connection has not been restored
I suspect that there is something many of you folks will see as simple that I am missing, but I just can not seem to find an answer anywhere. I am completely stumped by this problem and getting quite frustrated. Any help would be very much appreciated.