Windows 10: my computer looks different. it looks like a networked hard drive and devices

My computer looks as though the hard drive and system are all networked instead of being on my computer. what do I do to fix this?

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Looking to buy a NAS Hard Drive

What's the difference between these two drives?

LaCie Network Space 1TB Gigabit Ethernet NAS Hard Drive £123.04

and

LaCie Internet Space 1TB Gigabit Ethernet NAS Hard Drive £149.49

What's the difference between a 'network space' and an 'internet space'?

I'd like a drive which is accessible from other computers not in my network. Is this not possible with the first one?

I'd prefer the first one for its colour.... the second one looks too macintosh...*Oh Well hwell:

Thanks.
*Toast :toast:

 

Computer freezes and Explorer doen't respond when I plug an external Hard drive

Hello jobkakule,

The issue is possibly caused by corrupted data or bad sectors on your external hard drive or could be a sign of a failing hard drive.

To better assist you with your concern, I'd like to know the following:

• Confirm which build is currently installed on your device. To check, follow the steps below:

1. Press Windows key + R, then type in winver.
2. Click OK.

• Have you tried plugging your external hard drive to a different USB port? Also, check if you can access the drive by plugging it to a different computer.
• What is the make and model of your computer?

Meanwhile, I'd suggest to repair the bad sectors on your external hard drive. Kindly refer to the steps below:

(Let's just assume that the drive letter for your external hard drive is E. If not, please do change it to the correct drive letter)

1. Plug in your external hard drive. Click on Start, search for
Command Prompt, right-click on it and select Run as administrator.

2. Type in the following command below and press Enter after each command:

Chkdsk /f E:

Chkdsk /r E:

3. Reboot your computer after the scan is completed.

Looking forward to your response.

Regards.

 

Discussing home networking - What does your network look like?

• What do you use for a gateway/router? Netopia 3341 (I think) ADSL gateway + D-Link DGL-4500 router
• What does your network topology look like? Router is at the center of the house with a desktop and two printers plugged into it. There's a 50-75' cable going to my room which has a Netgear 8-port unmanaged gigabit switch (can't be arsed to fetch the model). All cable is CAT6 UTP or CAT6 FTP. There are two up to six computers plugged into the switch. There's generally four wireless devices (two phones, two computers).
• How many devices and what kind of traffic do you need to worry about? (local and external) Since there are no SSDs here and the fastest hard drive RAID is ~100 MB/s, I can't really saturate my local network. The bottleneck is definitely the internet coming into the Netopia gateway (3 mbps / 384 kbps).
• ...and one of the best questions of all, why did you do everything the way that you did and what would you or are you going to change in the future about it? Necessity and the router's CPU has crashed a few times so it needs to be replaced sooner or later.