Lost contact with my NAS after changing its IP

Lost contact with my NAS after changing its IP I did some brain-dead reconfiguring of my D-Link DNS-323 NAS some days ago. I have a home network where each computer gets a dynamically allocated IP address starting at 192.168.1.100.
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Guest [Entry]

"I didn't dare to reset the NAS because I wasn't sure I wouldn't lose the data on it.

Pinging it didn't produce any result either so I was about to change the IP on my laptop so it would be on the same network and try that route.

But before that I tried one last thing, (which I have tried before without any luck): the easy_search utility that D-Link supplies with the NAS.

The ""Easy Search"" utility found the NAS this time, and even let me change the NAS' configuration back to a dynamic IP, rather than static.

Thanks for helping me out guys! I was stuck, and without any tips from you I wouldn't have tried the easysearch utility since it didn't work the last time :-)

Sincerely,
Beles"

Guest [Entry]

"Double check that the IP address of the NAS has been set to 192.168.0.10 by accessing your router and viewing the attached devices (without knowing the make/model of your router I can't say if this is possible but I assume it is). You should also try pinging 192.168.0.10.

ping 192.168.0.10

As fretje has suggested you could also move a machine into the 192.168.0.* address range and see if that works."

Guest [Entry]

Turned out when I burnt out my old router, and replaced with a new one, I'd forgotten the NAS (WD Worldbook) was set to a fixed ip, on a different subnet. So I couldn't find it. Path to rectification was to use the reset/recovery button. It doesn't wipe data, only the settings on the device. Poof! it worked again.