could not reconnect to network drive but drives are all there

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Doug Starkey

I have another weird issue and this may or may not be the appropriate
group to discuss it. If so, let me know & I'll direct my inquiry
elsewhere.

Anyway, I have an XP user that boots up and logs on. Once everything
loads, she gets a message that, "Could not reconnect all network drives".

But when we check, all the drives that she is supposed to be connected
to are present. So, the question is, how do I find out what drive it
"thinks" it's supposed to be connecting to and tell it to stop trying?

Thanks!
 
Don't know if this will help but list the drives that show in Windows
Explorer and also those that show in Windows Explorer/Tools/Disconnect
Network Drives. If they are not the same you might try to disconnect the
one in Disconnect that is not listed in Explorer.

Read these articles to see if they help.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20030626.shtml &
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/webmaster/article.php/2231581.

When I searched MS KB on this error it only takes me to the KB article which
lists all the fixes included in SP2. When I scroll down the list I can't
see the exact error message.

It really is a shame that MS doesn't list ALL error messages in their KB for
an OS and at least give a message as to what the error message means even if
there isn't a fix available.
 
LVTravel said:
Don't know if this will help but list the drives that show in Windows
Explorer and also those that show in Windows Explorer/Tools/Disconnect
Network Drives. If they are not the same you might try to disconnect the
one in Disconnect that is not listed in Explorer.

Read these articles to see if they help.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/qa/qa20030626.shtml &
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/webmaster/article.php/2231581.
Click to expand...

Both of these articles deal with XP Home; and the solution is to upgrade
to XP Proffessional. I'm already using XP Professional. :-( I realize
that the machine is probably trying to connect to a drive that is no
longer there. But if the drive is no longer there, how can I tell it to
stop looking for it?
When I searched MS KB on this error it only takes me to the KB article which
lists all the fixes included in SP2. When I scroll down the list I can't
see the exact error message.

It really is a shame that MS doesn't list ALL error messages in their KB for
an OS and at least give a message as to what the error message means even if
there isn't a fix available.
Click to expand...

Amen to that, brother! (or "sister", as the case may be)
 
One more thing to try. I have had a drive share problem on my network
before. Somehow two drives (a physical USB Smart Media reader and a
networked drive shared the same drive letter. How, I don't know but it did
happen.) If you are mapped to any drives on the computer unmap them all.
Reboot the computer and see if any "new drives" appear. If this happens
remap the networked drives to different drive letters.
 
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