My Book World Edition problems =( w7 related

[Salodin]

I use an old My Book World Edition for my mass storage needs, but now that I've upgraded to Windows 7 I'm having trouble accessing the drive. Has any one ever had to deal with this and can give some insight?

[rezn0r]

Your local account is different than when you put data on the drive, you need to reclaim ownership.

Right click the drive in Explorer, go to Properties / Security / Advanced (down the bottom) / Owner tab / Edit... / change Owner to the account you are currently using. Be sure to check off "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" and hit Apply. If you have a lot on the drive it might take a little while.

[Salodin]

The problem is I can't even see the drive. Back when I used Vista it would show up under the networks area, and I was able to map the drive from there, but now I can't even see it in the networks area.

The best I can do is go to it's ip address on my network and adjust some settings, but nothing seems to let my computer see it on the network.

[rezn0r]

my bad for skimming posts and assuming permissions were what the problem was... sorry about that

what firewall are you running on the windows 7 system? check out the last post on this thread: http://www.sevenforums.com/network-s...d-edition.html

[Salodin]

I'm using PC Tools firewall, and I don't see any network option on it. Regardless, with it on or off, I can't find the drive at all.