Network drives appear and dissapear randomly.
 

Im having issues where im seeing my networked items just dissapear and reappear randomly and just wondered if anyone knows a fix to this.



Im running windows 10 pro x64.

Re: Network drives appear and dissapear randomly.
 

Mine started doing that. I migrated everything off, and was glad I did as total failure happened a couple of days later.

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Most disks incorporate SMART these days, so download and run HD tune from this site. It'll show you any problems.

https://howtorecover.me/best-program...attributes-hdd

Re: Network drives appear and dissapear randomly.
 

I dont think ite hard disk failure as this happens on network places and drives over a number of different drives.

Re: Network drives appear and dissapear randomly.
 

I have a bunch of external USB connected desktop HDDs, and they go through this sort of "fluttering" every now and again. I suspect power-saving is behind it.

Re: Network drives appear and dissapear randomly.
 

it used to happen occasionally with my nas and if I restarted the NAS Power Management windows service the drives would come back without me having to tinker with the NAS itself

Re: Network drives appear and dissapear randomly.
 

Same here with a D-link NAS. It's worth also checking the network card power management to see if this sleeps, especially if you are using a laptop.