Broken alias on networked hard drive

I have a hard drive connected to my Airport extreme that I've divided into 2 drives. 1 for home backups and 1 for work backups.  I've got a broken alias for the home drive (the one I'm trying to backup) and can't seem to fix it.
How do I fix this broken alias?
thanks

What kind of files are they?
Do you have these installed?
Flip4Mac WMV Player from  http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm  (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft)
Perian from  http://perian.org/
You should read this support page  http://perian.org/#support   in case you need to delete older codecs.  In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them), particularly any DivX extension to Safari. However it should be noted that Perian is not an internet plugin and will not play DivX files imbedded on a website. For that you will need the DivX Player browser plugin available from  http://www.divx.com/en/software/mac/player

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