Problem with Vista locating a network hard drive

> Hi,
>
> I recently bought a Western Digital 1TB Network Hard Drive.
>
> With this bit of hardware you get a peice of software called WD
> Anywhere Access (Powered by Mionet)
>
> The New HD is connected to my Wireless Router.
>
> Ok the situation is this.
>
> I have a PC with XP as its OS - I had installed the Mionet thing
> descovering that it was the most useless and pathetic bit of software
> that has ever been on my PC. It was a thougher waste of HD space and I
> removed it when I discovered that all I needed to do to access my new
> 1TN HD was to use "My Network Places" and Map the Drive to "My Computer"
>
> But, And here is where Vista comes in.
>
> I have a Vista Laptop (Vista Home Premium 32bit)
> I am unable to locate the drive using this lapto, it cannot find it
> unless I install the Mionet thing.
> Once installing the Mionet thing, the laptop is able to find the 1TB HD
> through the network, so I am not Using the Mionet software, I mearly
> installed it, which allowed me to locate the drive.
> Unfortunetly, This Mionet seems to disagree with Vista, and when
> turning my laptop on the folowing day, there were major problems and I
> was ubale to use the laptop in any setting but "Safe Mode". I grabbed my
> Vista Disk to do a repair and it performed a system restor which removed
> Mionet and made the laptop usable again.
>
> I don't want to reinstall this ionet incase the problem repeats itself.
> But I am now running out of ideas,
>
> Is there anyone out there with suggestions?
>
> FYI - I have deactivated the firewall and have also disabled rss and
> autotuninglevel in command prompt.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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