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cottonchipper
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Dec 22, 2018
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Changing out Readyshare USB Drive

I've been using an external USB plugged into my Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 R-7000 router to backup files stored on a couple of network computers.  It has worked great, but now I'd like to remove the US...
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  • IrvSp's avatar
    IrvSp
    Dec 22, 2018

    By the way, I've had instances when the USB drive couldn't be seen and I had to REBOOT the router to see them? Have you tried that?

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cottonchipper
Aspirant
Dec 22, 2018

I'm pretty frustrated with this Readyshare feature right now. As I said above, I've had a drive plugged in and backing up for months now. I unplugged the drive to start attempting to replace it with another identical drive. No only did the software not see the replacement drive, now it doesn't see the original drive. Right now I've got one plugged into the front 3.0 USB socket and the other plugged into the back 2.0 USB socket and neither shows up in the Readyshare Vault software's "Backup" tab Step 1: Selected Backup Drive. Refreshing it searches for drives but finds none.