Seeing properties of USB drive attached to HomeHub...

I have a powered USB drive (160Gb) attached to USB port on my Home Hub 5.
This works fine as a network drive, accessible through Windows Explorer on all PC's attached to network. (Win7 and XP, Apple)
However, when I try to check the properties (free space etc.) using 'Properties' in Windows Explorer, I see 0GB ias size.
How do I check space used on this drive?

Have you tried mapping the share to a drive letter, and seeing if the size shows against the drive letter?
Use "map network drive", and map it to a spare drive letter.
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BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

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