Not working after upgrade to Windows 8

WD Legacy Products My Book Live Duo
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My MyBook Live Duo (connected via router) worked pretty good under Windows 7, but after upgrading to Windows 8 things have changed. When I open the driveletter Z: I get an error, which roughly translates into: “There’s been an error reconnecting between Z: and \192.168.0.102\Public . Can’t find the network path”.

The only way to connect now is via ‘Network’ and then ‘MYBOOKLIVEDUO’. That’s all fine, but this way I can’t open files from within programmes like Paintshop Pro and Word etc. anymore.

Also, under ‘Computer’ a new “drive” called MyBookLiveDuo has appeared, but this also fails to give me access to files.

I wonder what has gone wrong and how I can go about correcting these errors. Any help will be highly appreciated.

(BTW I’ve considered uninstalling everything but installing the drive in the first place was a nightmare since the software installation disc delivered with the MyBook Live Duo… didn’t work! Nice going…)

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Have you tried remapping the drive?

Are you able to check on the name of the drive to see if theres any changes?

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Might be because the MBL and MBLD is stil using Samba server version 3.6.5 and I think WD are working on a firmware release which uses Samba server version 4.  It might also be a fault with Windows 8 and not Samba.  In this case if and when WD release Samba v4 then WD will be trying to work round a fault within Windows 8.

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Thank you so much. I never did anything like ‘remapping a drive’ but for some reason this worked right away. Wonderful! I’m out of the trouble now I think.