One is a wd my book 4tdrive and the other a 5t drive. Oct 15, 2011 my hdd is externally powered so that is not the problem. List of all wd firmware and software available for download. Western digital usb drives and windows 7 pc talk forum. If the drive is not showing up in disk management or disk utility at all, you have some other type of problem. I am having the same trouble, except that the cpu is new and the external hard drive has a lot of files like my entire music library which i. I had a wd my book essential 2tb external drive that started slowing down. Usb device not recognized when you try to access a usb. When i plug it in, i hear the machine inside starting up and the white light starts to blink for a few seconds then it stops. It is however recognized by the device manager it shows external storage device but not a name mybook.
Hello, guys im suppose to ask a question but i am providing a solution to wd external hard drives at least for my book anyways, ive had my my book for a couple years gave up on because i couldnt figure how get stuff to save to the harddrive because it was not being recognized. The light still comes on and it doesnt make any clicking noise, but it just doesnt show up on my computer anymore. Wd my book external drive not working posted in external hardware. My western digital hard drive is not showing up in windows 7. When i plugged it, there the laptop recognized that there is a new device and tried to find the proper driver for it. Have had a 2t wd my book on continuously for about 4.
Oct 04, 2009 windows lost my usb western digital my book hard drive. My wd my book essential external hard drive suddenly wont get recognized by the computer. Then, you can restart computer to see whether the wd hard drive is recognized by windows 10. I also cant see it on my computer with a different cable and power source they work fine for my own my book.
Click choose what the power button does change the settings that are currently unavailable. The drive is not recognized correctly unless usb 2. Fix usb device not recognized in windows 10 easeus. I backed everything up on windows 7 pc which crashed. I have a wd 1tb mybook 1140 external hard drive, and it has worked fine up until now. My book home edition user manual connecting the device 6 esata 1. Wd my book 2tb shows up in device manager but doesnt open. This western digital my book hard drive offers builtin 256bit hardware encryption and optional password protection for peace of mind. Wd my book drives not working posted in windows 10 support. Designed to meet wds demanding requirements for durability, shock tolerance, and longterm reliability, we back up pun intended. I plug it in and nothing happens, no bling sound or any indication that it was even plugged in.
My hdd is externally powered so that is not the problem. I have a lot of files on it, and i need to put more on it. Are my my book essential drives model numbers wd5000h1u00 and wd3200h1u00 compatible with windows 7. Connect the ac adapter and esata cable optional as shown. If it is, right click wd hard drive, choose properties and click update driver under driver tab or click on uninstall. Wd external hard drive not recognized windows 7 help forums. One has all of my ripped movie files, the other has all of my photos, my documents, my music, and my steam library. Wd external hard drive not recognized in my computer wd. I then have to restart my pc a bunch of times to get the wd unlocker to come up again. Wd my book external drive not working external hardware. I have tried it on a laptop with windows 7 and on a destop pc with windows xp, it doesnt work. Millions of people around the world trust their data to my book desktop storage.
Unfortunately it is not being recognized by the dock usb port. T400 t500 and newer t series laptopslenovo community. May 21, 2010 hey, im having problems with my 1 tb wd my book essential drive external usb hdd. Click disk drives and check if there is a yellow exclamation mark with wd hard drive disk device. About 4 months ago, the pc stopped recognizing the hd. After i updated i ve been getting a lot of bugs and extreme lag. Open control panel hardware and sound power options. Wd my book 1tb now working by angsan3 nov 19, 2015 2. In addition to regular system and program data backups, i purchased the western digital my book mirror edition backup drive as security for the thousands of digital photographs and scans we have. But it will not let me in and will not allow me to request a new password so i can go in a forum or support. Wds hard drives do not follow a format that windows 7 can read. Wd backup is a backup application that can automatically protect your files, documents and photos with on premise backups to a wd drive as primary storage. Ive only had it for a couple months and now its not showing up on my macbook pro.
How to fix external drive not recognized error in windows. Offpremise backs up to a cloud as secondary storage for disaster recovery purpose. Anyways, when i connected my wd my book that has worked flawlessly on my macbook, and it has a bunch of videos and pictures stored it doesnt open automatically and when i looked under file explorer its not listed on the left side either. But, i can see it in my devices and printers page, and it says it is working fine, and all. However i was using it very carefully to only copy one external usb drive to another usb external drive so not. My book home edition user manual getting started 1 getting started.
Restart pc and plug in usb device to see if it works or not if it still not works, try. Nov 15, 2011 when i try to click on it to bring up the password screen, it just disappears. When i try to click on it to bring up the password screen, it just disappears. Hi folks, a friend of mine has given me his my book to test for him. My hard drive isnt recognized by windows 7 how can i fix this.
Jul 26, 2012 in addition to regular system and program data backups, i purchased the western digital my book mirror edition backup drive as security for the thousands of digital photographs and scans we have. Hey, im having problems with my 1 tb wd my book essential drive external usb hdd. I realizes there were threads related to the same issue, but its not what i am looking for. This caused an issue as i needed windows 10 to recognize my passport to do a backup. Windows 10 wont recognize mybook microsoft community. I open lost partition recovery wizard from mootools, it has detected the drive but shows as 0kb storage. I am about to reinstall my operating system, but need to save my files first. Usb device not recognized when you try to access a usb external hard drive on windows 7. I keep getting unknown usb device device descriptor request failed code 43. After building a pc with win 10, ive not had my wd my book world edition used for a good while, decided to plug it in and install the drivers etc. How to solve my wd hard drive not recognized in windows 10. The device was listed as working properly in device manager. Heres some more info it doesnt show up in my computer or disk management however. The power to the net book was active when i plugged in the ext hd.
Unlike some other people with this problem, my hard drive isnt showing up on my pc windows 7 or my husbands macbook air, and although it has a flashing blue light when plugged in, it isnt making that spinning sound, which has me worried it might be a gonner. Were also keen to help you personally make more of your time using technology. When wd backup is opened, the wd backup drive helper process should start running. When i connect it to the pc, sometimes the pc reads. I havent had much time to trouble shoot the problem but im almost at an end now on what to do.
Windows 10 messed this up royal and i can not get updates, due to the phase out, and may have to get rid of my. Mar 08, 2018 in shooting another video for call that geek, i found that my wd passport not recognized in the system. Sep 23, 20 disk1 is my western digital passport 1tb hd, i tried running disk status tool which is a part of wd utilities. I recently heard of someone who has a wd external usb drive that will no longer work after switching to win7, so i emailed wd about my two recently purchased my book drives. Jan, 2012 my wd external hard drive just suddenly stopped being recognized by my computer while i was watching a movie. External hdd not being recognized by win7 techspot forums. Ive saved quite a lot of important files inside the drive. My hard drive doesnt show up windows 7 fix western. This article demonstrates you how to solve wd hard drive like wd elements or wd my book being not recognized windows 10 in detail. Dec 20, 2012 i have a wd 1tb mybook 1140 external hard drive, and it has worked fine up until now. Its 5 gbps data transfer rate enables fast copying of files, and its automatic backup software can be set to fit any schedule. Why is my wd external hard drive suddenly no longer. Dec 21, 2015 my wd my book essential external hard drive suddenly wont get recognized by the computer. My hard drive doesnt show up windows 7 fix western digital.
Hello, guys im suppose to ask a question but i am providing a solution to wd external hard drives at least for my book anyways, ive had my my book for a couple years gave up on because i couldnt figure how get stuff to save to the harddrive because it. I formatted the same cmd format command and removed all the smart ware vitual drive stuff which cam preinstalled. Why doesnt my external drive appear when plugged in. Local pc security, anti virus, malware protection or end point protection software may need to be configured to allow wd backup. Ive tried to check though the forum for a solution without much luck. Both worked perfectly before upgrading to windows 10. High capacity external hdds not recognised in windows 10. Fix wd external hard drive not working recognized showing. Hi guys, i have western digital external hdd 2 tb green that seems to have stopped working. My wd passport ultra 2tb external hard drive is not showing up in explorer when i plug it into the usb port in a normal way. May 17, 2016 wd my book drives not working posted in windows 10 support. After updating, the hard drive with the movie files is recognized, but the one with all of my documents is not.
I realizes there were threads related to the same issue, but its not what i. Before that it was working perfectly on both computers. But my computer is just simply not letting me access the files in it. Currently i have two wd external drives, my book 2. If the drive is showing here, but not on the os x desktop, then click first aid to try and repair the drive.
My hard drive doesnt show up windows 7 fix western digital hard drive. If your product is not listed above, please visit the product page. I am having the same trouble, except that the cpu is new and the external hard drive has a lot of files like my entire music library which i would rather not lose. Change power supply to make usb drive work in windows 10. Wd my book essential external hard drive not recognized.
Wd backup not seeing my drive may be caused by various reasons. The hard drive hasnt fallen down or been physically damaged in any way. Asus transformer wd my passport 1tb not recognizing. My 1tb wd external hard drive is not working on my windows 10 pc and i can do nothing to the drive since it fails to show up in this pc. Store files securely with this 4tb western digital my book hard drive.
Windows lost my usb western digital my book hard drive. I checked disk utility to see if it shows up there and it doesnt. The drive finally stopped responding, and would not be recognized by winxp. Wd my book essential drive not recognized on my mac. Turn on my book by pressing the power button located on the back panel.
May 01, 2010 another wd my book problem not sure if i should start a new thread on this or not, but since it is a wd my book issue, am posting as reply. I have to connect it through a bizarre way to make it show up in explorer. Ive tried initializing it, but it keeps saying the media is write protected and wouldnt let me. Sep 26, 2016 wd my book external drive not working posted in external hardware. Some esata controllers may require a system reboot to. My book essential hard drive is not recognized by windows. What happens is i plug in my drive to power and the drive starts spinning up. In shooting another video for call that geek, i found that my wd passport not recognized in the system. Ive now got the wd external hdd up and running and am. Plugged it into a switch and its not being recognised at all, even downloaded the wd cd with the drivers and the detection. The former blue bars on the spine of the plastic enclosure no longer lit, and. I have a 4 tb hard drive that i use to back up my office pc.
Heres some more info it doesnt show up in my computer or disk management. Fix wd external hard drive not workingrecognizedshowing up. Dec 30, 2016 hp z book 17 windows 10 fails to load. My wd external hard drive just suddenly stopped being recognized by my computer while i was watching a movie. Its been a month that my external hard drive could not be detected in my. I think it does show up under device manager, under the name of my book 1.
However when i opened device manager it was listed under disk drives and wd drive management devices. Hi all, i have a 5year old wd my book external hd connected to an hp pavillion running win7 sp1. Another wd my book problem not sure if i should start a new thread on this or not, but since it is a wd my book issue, am posting as reply. External hard drive not showing up in windows or os x. I tried updating the wdsmartware, then removing the wdsmartware, but it continued to show signs of failure. Wd passport hd failed to recognize, disk not initilized. I dont know what reasons have made the drive not responding, and neither i know any solutions. Ive probably caused a boot fail issue after installing and using paragon hard disk manager. Oct 01, 2014 my western digital hard drive is not showing up in windows 7. But, i can see it in my devices and printers page, and it says it is working fine, and all the. Why isnt my wd my book external hard drive being recognized. Computer wont recognize western digital mybook 1140 1tb.
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