Wireless Hard Drive Suddenly Unable to Network

July 15, 2008

I have been using a Buffalo LinkStation Pro LS-250GL High Speed NAS Wireless

External Hard Drive and all of a sudden I can't network with it. It has

worked fine for over a year on my primary XP (SP2) laptop, and 2 other

laptops I own (both XP SP2) have no problem accessing the hard drive and its

files.

Now - although I can access the hardware through its web interface and can

log in and change settings, it won't let me access files.

I have been in contact with BuffaloTech support as well as Symantec/Norton

and both insist that something changed in Windows to cause access problems. I

have disabled and re-enabled Norton Antivirus and uninstalled and

re-installed the Buffalo LinkStation software and updated their firmware to

no avail.

I haven't used the external drive for a month, maybe 2 months, and I doubt I

could rollback far enough to a system restore point to see if that would

solve the issue.

Is there any other way to see what could be causing this issue?

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