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Possible to force wifi connect before Win7 looks for LAN drives?
I have a household WiFi LAN (802.11 n) with a WD Netcenter NAS attached to the router via Ethernet. The NAS is divided into several drives, each of which has been mapped to a drive letter and marked for "reconnect at logon." I have an XP netbook and two W7 desktops on the network wirelessly.
Every time I reboot any of the machines, they always tell me that they couldn't find/reconnect to the network drives. It's almost as if the system tries to find the drives before the wireless card starts up.
Does anyone know a way to get the PCs to find the doggone drives on the NAS? Is there a setting to make the WiFi cards turn on earlier in the boot process? Or a way to make the system pause for a minute before looking for the drives? Or do I just have the drives not designated properly somehow?