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Rodman3942
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Aug 30, 2015
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problem with netgear R6100 ReadyShare with WD My Book 2TB to Sony TV and PS3

I have recently upgraded my Router from a lynksis wirless N router to a Netgear Wireless AC 1200 (R6100).  With it I purchased a WD My Book 2 TB HDD for use as a NAS Device.  Everything was working f...
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    Aug 30, 2015

    So in my hunting I found a solution that has worked (so far).  I unplugged the WD Drive from my router and plugged it into my PC, navigated to the route directory and deleted the folder marked ".ReadyShare" and then reconnected it to the router.  It seams that the information in the floder got corrupted by the bad upload and the subsequent restart couldn't rebuild the information.  Removing all the bad data and allowing the router to re-create it seamed to work.