HEdwar2013
New Member
- Messages
- 3
- Location
- USA
First off, If this is in the correct location I humbly apologize in advance. I've been searching like crazy and haven't found anything helpful (I may just not be looking in the right place.)
This may take a bit of explanation so please be patient and bare with me!
Situation:
I have recently purchased a new laptop and want to be able to use my two external hard drives and a folder on my desktop on my new laptop. I store the majority of my files on each of these drives as well as comics, music, pictures, etc.
Devices Involved:
Desktop Computer:
HP Pavilion HPE Elite 477e
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU: Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.20Ghz
RAM: 8.00 (2x4Gb sticks) Gb Dual-Channel DDR3
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5450
Network: Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Laptop Computer:
Toshiba Satellite S855-S5377
OS: Windows 8 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i5 3210M @2.50 Ghz
Network: Realtek RTL8723AE Wireless Lan
Router:
D-Link DIR-825
What I've Tried:
Any help in this would be greatly appreciated. I don't normally have these sort of problems but this one has me stumped. What makes this issue even more weird is that some of the shares that I have on one of the network drives is directed to the same physical drive but will access some of the folders but not others.
This may take a bit of explanation so please be patient and bare with me!
Situation:
I have recently purchased a new laptop and want to be able to use my two external hard drives and a folder on my desktop on my new laptop. I store the majority of my files on each of these drives as well as comics, music, pictures, etc.
Devices Involved:
Desktop Computer:
HP Pavilion HPE Elite 477e
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU: Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.20Ghz
RAM: 8.00 (2x4Gb sticks) Gb Dual-Channel DDR3
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5450
Network: Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Laptop Computer:
Toshiba Satellite S855-S5377
OS: Windows 8 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i5 3210M @2.50 Ghz
Network: Realtek RTL8723AE Wireless Lan
Router:
D-Link DIR-825
What I've Tried:
- I have went through and made sure that all the sharing options within both Windows 7 and Windows 8 are enabled in Network and Sharing Center. I've also shared the two drives and the folders on the Windows 7 computer. I've attempted to make shortcuts for them on the Windows 8 computer and they randomly work but often times it comes up with an error saying it can't locate the connection.
- Both computers are actively running Norton 360 (current version) and have went through and made certain that the firewall on both is set to allow it's partner computer.
- As I mentioned before, the Windows 8 computer will randomly show the connections when I try to access them but more times than not it doesn't work.
- The two computers are connected to the same router mentioned above. The desktop is on a hard wired Cat5e connection and the laptop is connecting via wireless to the same router.
- The laptop can access the internet just fine through Wi-fi.
- I have also attempted to share the drives and folders on the laptop with the same result most of the time.
Any help in this would be greatly appreciated. I don't normally have these sort of problems but this one has me stumped. What makes this issue even more weird is that some of the shares that I have on one of the network drives is directed to the same physical drive but will access some of the folders but not others.
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows 8 64-bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Toshiba Satellite S855-S5377
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-3210M (Ivy Bridge) @ 2.50Ghz
- Motherboard
- Intel Ivy Bridge
- Memory
- 8Gb (2x 4Gb Modules) Kingston PC3-12800 DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Browser
- Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome
- Antivirus
- Norton 360