Drive Sharing Error

Restore Windows 7 to an earlier date. It may help.

Try updating your hard disk controller software.

This might solve your issue.

I think a system restore is rather dramatic. And I don't see it having anything to do with the drives themselves. If anything, I'd remove your current workgroup and setup a new one. Then assign that group to the other machines.

I had a very similar situation happen. IN fact my network places went away all together when I went to grab a file off my wifes HDD. It was just all gone. As days went on my my network places folder came back but empty, no icons , a few days later I had a few icons come back, several days later all is restored as it was before. It is as if there was a virus that had to run it's course so it could repair itself. I am running XP SP3 after going through the Win7 pro and none of my cad programs WORKED MS, SCREW MS! I am no able to grab the files on my wifes HDD as normal like it never happened. We've been wified for 12-13 years now. Screw Win7. and 8. Next step get away from MS.

Something that won't hurt:

Turn everything off, all computers, routers etc. Reboot everything. Wait an hour.

Try to access the drive.

Is this a standard windows share?

If it is try accessing the computer using Windows Explorer/Tools/Map Network drive

smb:\\<ip address>\share

You can use some of the "net" commands in the command window such as "net view". Help is available by using the "?". i.e. "help view ?"

Only ideas. I used to troubleshoot network problems a lot, but not anymore.

I have been fighting sharing since I started win7 a while back. My problems were that I did not understand that in win7 you set your drives, files and folders to share, in my case I used "everyone", since I have multiple users and computers in my network. Then you must also go to the security tab, and set all the security settings and permissions as well. Sometimes the security settings will be set correctly already, but other times they require manual resetting. This seems to happens to me when I do a windows update. Also, in addition, a recent update also decided to change my "inherited permissions". So files transfered from my temp download folder, which was not shared, to their finished files folder, which was shared, were Not shared. I was so damn confused. But they all work fine now. If you need to be walked through the settings I will be happy to detail the exact steps later this evening, but I am off to work now and don't have the time. Like everything else, once you know what to do, it's easy to fix.