Windows 10: Network drives disconnecting automatically

Hi all - I am at a lose as to what to do with the issue I have, reference to network drives dropping off the system?


I have 2 network drives, that have been working fine for years, I am guessing since a widows upgrade, I now after a short period if time lose them and other devises from the network. see list below


2 x Network drives

1 x Network printer

1 x Router


When they drop of the network I have to reboot the PC- Please see before and after images


This is once all items drop




This is on after initial boot up and after a reboot



On the after image, even though the printer is shown it cant be used. I cant log onto my router either.


I can though still use the internet and receive emails like any normal day!


After some researching I did find this potential solution, but it has not work for me. tick the SMB folder and deselect the top sub directory





to make this even worse, I do have a laptop that is suffering from the same issues, so to me that removes any potential issue with my network card!


It has been mentioned that Windows now has an auto disconnect on items that are not used for a while on the network, is this correct? Microsoft have been on my PC but could not fix it.


Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.

Ian


***Original title: Loosing Network drives - Windows 10***

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Network Disconnects in standby

NIC = Network Inteface Card, i.e. your ethernet port

if its on power saving mode, it automatically shuts the NIC down. meaning that you will be disconnected from the network.

if your on XP, go into device manager, right click the network adapter. and see if you can find a power saving mode, turn that off.

if your on vista its the same thing.

 

Windows 10 Drive Mapping showing Disconnected Network Drive

I have a NAS (WD My Cloud) on my home network and I have always added a drive on my networked computers using drive M as their Music drives. But recently My Network drive went down and I had to reinstall all the files on it's replacement drive. I gave
the new network drive4 the same IP address on the network and everything else (All the other drive mappings for my Documents Drive, my Downloads drive, my Pictures drive, etc. Nut my music drive keeps showing Disconnected Network Drive. But now I cannot delete
the drive mapping. It tells me Network drive does not exist. I have tried all of the suggestions from other threads including using Command prompt commands and everything else I have seen but it still shows up as a Disconnected Network drive. I can rename
the drive as Music again and I can always access the drive4 even when it is listed as Disconnected Netowork Drive but I cannot add any more files to it and I cannot manipulate any of the files on the drive. I can listen to the music files through most of my
players but I cannot edit any of the metadata on the files. How do I get my drive fully functional again?

 

Unable to disconnect from mapped network drive

I receive the following error when I try to disconnect from a self mapped network drive: "network connection does not exist"

The network drive icon appears with a bid red x and says it is disconnected, yet I can double click on it to enter the mapped folder. Doing this does not reconnect the folder, and remains disconnected. This causes problems because programs that pointed
to this path are unable to read the files. I am unable to remap this drive because the associated drive letter (E and mapping no longer shows up in the list.

I've tried all the typical suggestions including:

--I tried to do it via the command prompt with the net use delete command, but it can't be found in there.

--Tried to above with the actual network path instead of the drive letter, did not work

--Tried to delete the registry entries from:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2

HKEY_USERS\. Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Mountpoint2\

None of these solutions worked. Though deleting the registry entries momentarily hid the disconnected drive, the drive letter was still not available for mapping. I tried to force the drive letter (E to map to my optical drive, which worryingly, pointed
back to the mapped network location on the NAS instead of to the optical drive.

How do I get rid of this? Reformatting the computer is not an option.