Ethernet Connected external drive problem

I have a 500GB external drive that I connect to the home hub via ethernet. When I connect it to the home hub it does not appear in the connections list for the router and none of the computers can see it. The drive was working fine when it was connected to the router we used with our last broadband provider. Has anyone got any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Chris

Chead wrote:
Thanks C1Rider. I changed the IP address of the drive to be in the 192.168.1.x group and I also changed it from dynamic IP to static IP. Now I can now connect to the drive from all our machines.
The only strange thing is that when I look at the router settings the network drive still does not appear as connected to the router. This means I cannot use the "Always use this IP address" setting in the router.
Section 8 from this link should help make sure your Static IP addresses never wonder into the Homehub Dynamic allocated IP address range.
If you need to reset the Homehub make sure you record any needed settings so that you can re-enter them afterwards.
How to change the working IP range of a V2 hub
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