I've had to switch routers and now my Netgear SC101 is telling me
that, essentially, it is unformatted and I have to start again. 

The two routers have slightly different set-ups (one Belkin and one
D-Link) and different IP addresses - one is 192.168.2.x and the other
192.168.1.x .

Is there any way I can get the drive recognised again or di I have to
start from scratch?

TIA

On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:51:54 +0100
Cheeky  wrote:

> I've had to switch routers and now my Netgear SC101 is telling me
> that, essentially, it is unformatted and I have to start again. 

Are you sure that's what it's saying?  I'd have thought it was much
more likely that the drive mapping is messed up and the PC thinks
it needs to create a file system because it's not talking to the SC101
properly.
> 
> The two routers have slightly different set-ups (one Belkin and one
> D-Link) and different IP addresses - one is 192.168.2.x and the other
> 192.168.1.x .
> 
> Is there any way I can get the drive recognised again or di I have to
> start from scratch?
> 
Why not configure the new router to use the same LAN settings as the old
one.  Or am I missing something?

In article , Cheeky 
 writes
>I've had to switch routers and now my Netgear SC101 is telling me
>that, essentially, it is unformatted and I have to start again.
>
>The two routers have slightly different set-ups (one Belkin and one
>D-Link) and different IP addresses - one is 192.168.2.x and the other
>192.168.1.x .
>
>Is there any way I can get the drive recognised again or di I have to
>start from scratch?
>
>TIA

If you run the management software it will look to build some more 
drives on what ever bit of disk is left on the drives. So it may look 
like it wants to start from scratch, the there is a drive(s) there.

Don C

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:05:21 +0100, Rob Morley 
wrote:

>On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:51:54 +0100
>Cheeky  wrote:
>
>> I've had to switch routers and now my Netgear SC101 is telling me
>> that, essentially, it is unformatted and I have to start again. 
>
>Are you sure that's what it's saying?  I'd have thought it was much
>more likely that the drive mapping is messed up and the PC thinks
>it needs to create a file system because it's not talking to the SC101
>properly.

That's definitely what it was saying. However... it seems a reboot, a
detach and a re-attach has sorted the problem.

Must admit I'm slightly disappointed in the way all this works. I'd
assumed it would just sit on the network as a network drive without
having to install software on all client PCs. Should have done my
homework a bit better!

>> 
>> The two routers have slightly different set-ups (one Belkin and one
>> D-Link) and different IP addresses - one is 192.168.2.x and the other
>> 192.168.1.x .
>> 
>> Is there any way I can get the drive recognised again or di I have to
>> start from scratch?
>> 
>Why not configure the new router to use the same LAN settings as the old
>one.  Or am I missing something?

Didn't think of that. Thanks for the suggestion!

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 19:30:04 +0100, Donald Campbell
 wrote:

>In article , Cheeky 
> writes
>>I've had to switch routers and now my Netgear SC101 is telling me
>>that, essentially, it is unformatted and I have to start again.
>>
>>The two routers have slightly different set-ups (one Belkin and one
>>D-Link) and different IP addresses - one is 192.168.2.x and the other
>>192.168.1.x .
>>
>>Is there any way I can get the drive recognised again or di I have to
>>start from scratch?
>>
>>TIA
>
>If you run the management software it will look to build some more 
>drives on what ever bit of disk is left on the drives. So it may look 
>like it wants to start from scratch, the there is a drive(s) there.
>
>Don C

Thanks Don. Seems to be sorted now.