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Drive missing in "This PC" but still works fine in command prompt
This problem is usually fixed by slow solutions such as restarting my PC. But I run into this every day, so I need a better solution. I have a Buffalo NAS (network hard drive). I have to keep that at Auto-on mode because it's noisy. So everytime I want to turn the drive on, I need to wake it up with a network wake-on-lan command. That works fine.
The problem is, sometimes, due to sleep/resume etc. the drive just disappears from "This PC" (or My computer). If this happens, my drive x: still works perfectly in a command prompt. I connect to the drive with net use x: \\LS-WSXL64F\share /persistent:yes and that works usually. But sometimes only command prompt sees the drive and Explorer says "Windows can't find X:". At the same time "This PC" does show "LS-WSXL64F: LinkStation" which is a server version of the drive. It has some funny folders in it and is useless, I need the real x: drive which has my own folder structure. So Explorer does have connection to the drive, but X: is dead and I can't revive it even with "net use x: /delete" and then the previous net use x: \\LS.. For command prompt the net use commands work perfectly but not for Explorer. Explorer has "Map network drive". As a slow solution, I can remap successfully, but I just want to force and refresh the same mapping always, regardless of if the drive is physically off sometimes (which adds to the problem).
How do I force Explorer to recognize the same drive as command prompt recognizes?
Why is "net use" disconnected from "Map network drive"?
Is there a possibility for a shortcut for the "Map network drive" with all parameters included?