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Why SMART is passing while it indicates failure for RAW read error rate?
I have an external USB disk (WD Elements Caviar Green 2 To, WD20EADS-00W4B0) that started to fail (slow reads). My system logs didn't show anything unusual, this definitely indicates some supposedly ...
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WD HDD in endless power-cycling
My WD Red WD20EFRX making trouble again. Some weeks ago, I already had some problems with it and since it only works when directly plugged via USB without any interfering Hubs.
Yesterday my Mac ...
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Can't format external hard drive (“in use”)
I'm running (via Boot Camp) Windows 7 SP1 on my 32-bit MacBook, and I'm trying to format a new Western Digital My Passport external hard drive to use NTFS. It came formatted of course but I wiped it ...
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Trying to rescue data from WD My Book Studio II, raid 0
For a friend I'm trying to recover data from a Western Digital My Book Studio II external disk drive enclosure in raid 0 mode.
At first I tried to rescue the data under OSX, the OS used by the ...
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Can't locate files copied to an external hard drive
I recently purchased a 1TB Western Digital portable external hardrive. I copied many of our desktop's files over to the drive (word processing files, excel files, pictures and music tracks - mostly ...
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Western Digital 1TB external hard drive could not be read
I have a problem with my external hard drive, I was copying a huge amount of data (approx 100 gigs) from it to another hard drive, suddenly an error popped up and told me that the operation could not ...
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External Hard drive not accessible [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover harddrive data
I've got a WD 500GB external hard drive. I've been using it for over a year now but suddenly ran into this problem where neither Windows 7, nor ...
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Configure western digital essential 3TB to work with boxee box
I have a new western digital "my book elements" 3TB external harddrive. When I plug it in via USB to my boxee box it is not recognized.
Based on feedback from boxee forums I have tried:
GPT ...
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Western Digitial My Book: Can't access the data on the drive
My girlfriend has this external hard drive by Western Digital called a My Book.
When the external drive is connected, it does not show it as an accessible disk drive on the computer. However, it ...
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Repair BAD Sectors or Buy a new HDD? [closed]
I have a Seagate internal hard disk drive. I recently opened up my laptop [Dell Inspiron N5010] [Warranty has expired], cleaned it and it worked normally after waking up from hibernation. However, ...
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My Portable Hard Drive with USB3 didn't work when connected to My Laptop, but it working with USB2 properly
I have Western Digital My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive with USB3 and Model:WDBACY5000ABK-EESN.
Until about two or three months ago when I connected that to My Laptop USB3 port, that worked ...
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Recovering damaged external hard disk by installing internally
I had a 1TB Western Digital (My book series) 3.5" USB3. One day, the SATA to USB3 converter board was damaged and has not worked since.
I decided to open the cover and use the HDD as an internal ...
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WD Elements Desktop External - Not recognised on a single computer
My WD Elements Desktop External is no longer recognised on my main computer.
It has worked fine in the past, but now all of a sudden is not detected. It does not prompt when plugged in, nor does it ...
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Mac Finder: WD My Passport won't mount
I really need your help. I have a WD My Passport 650GB (with Firewire and USB).
I'm using it for almost a year now and it always worked fine. While underway I simply plug it in via Firewire - at home ...
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What are the main differences between the Western Digital “My Passport,” “My Passport Essential,” and “My Passport Studio” external hard drives?
My goal is to buy a 2TB external portable drive for use with my current MacBook Pro (Mid-2007) and for use with my next Mac (hopefully the rumored 15" MacBook Air).
I'm planning to buy a Western ...
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Western Digital external drive issues
I recently bought an external drive from Western Digital, a My Passport Essential se 1TB drive; the smartware software continually says "discovering" and does not stop. On Windows, the operating ...
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USB3.0 external drive, large wait on read after an idle period
Just wondered is the 5sec+ delay on reading my 1TiB external WD USB3.0 drive after a period of idleness?
Is this unique to SuperSpeed type USB or does all external USB drives have this delay before ...
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WD “My Book Studio” 2TB - rpm? [closed]
The rpm rating of this drive doesn't seem to be listed anywhere. Not on the box, not in the manual, not online, not even on Western Digital's website. I even called them but they were evasive, ...
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WD SmartWare Drive Unlock, Western Digital?
I bought a 1TB Western Digital (USB3) some days ago.
I was using it without any problems, but now whenever I attach it to my laptop USB, the following window up and I can't use it at all.
The Drive ...
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How to format External Western Digital hard disk when all NTFS boot sectors cannot be written to
I want to format my external hard drive which is a Western Digital 500GB, through cmd dos command. But it fails because all NTFS boot sectors are not writable. Here are the commands I gave and what I ...
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Format NTFS external drive to OSX
Is there anyway of converting an external drive which is NTFS to OSX...I don't want to be able to write to NTFS from my Mac, I want to format the drive and use it as if its made for OSX in OSX format.
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Disable External Wester Digital MyBook from spinning Down
I have this external hard drive for my cloud; and it constantly spins down. I do want it to do so. How do I disable this at the hardware level? I am able to disable this on my seagate drives at the ...
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How much power does a Western Digital Passport Essential SE require?
I have looked at the Western Digital website for my product (WDBACX0010BBK) and cannot find how much power the device requires.
The device is not recognized when I plug it into my keyboard's USB hub. ...
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USB drive: “Media is write protected” on initialize after drive swap WD MyBook Essentials
I got a WD MyBook Essentials the other day but after a week or so the drive physically broke.
I tried opening the case and replacing the drive with another SATA WD drive I had lying around. This ...
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My Book Essential 3.0 RPM
I just bought a WD My Book Essential 3.0 with 1TB and USB 3.0. The code for the product is WDBACW0010HBK.
How can I find out what RPM it has? There is no mention in the manual and the official site ...
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WD My Book on Windows 7 disappears after a certain amount of time
Recently (<2 weeks) bought a WD My Book 2TB USB3 external HDD. After a seemingly random amount of time, when not in use, the drive will disappear.
I have checked under computer management -> disk ...
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I broke the USB port on my external HDD. How do I fix this?
I have a WD 1.5 TB External HD. I carelessly left the device plugged in, stepped off my bed, foot landed on the cord stuck in the USB port and now the USB port is broken. It's loose inside the ...
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My Western Digital 500GB Passport disk says “not formatted” when I plug it in Windows
When I plug my Western Digital 500 GB Passport disk in my Windows machine, it says "not formatted, do you want to format it" something. I started having this problem after I put it in an old desktop ...
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How to recover data after Low Level formatting of WD 500gb External HDD [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover data loss from accidental quick format
I have lost everything on my Passport WD 500gb HDD,and no,there was no back up done :(
I've heard of people who have gone ...
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Western Digital My Book not recognized by WD software
A few years ago I bought a WD My Book Pro 2. It worked fine for a while, then one of the drives failed and I sent it back to be replaced under warranty. I never got around to setting up the new one ...
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repair/recovery tool for Western Digital Elements (1TB)
My Hard Disk Drive just got corrupted due to electricity fluctuation. When I plug my Western Digital Elements, It ask me if I want to format it or not... I can't see my files or even the capacity of ...
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External WD hard drive unrecognised and making odd noises (hum of death?)
My 500GB WD external HDD was working fine a few months ago, and I've just plugged it in again.
It is now unrecognised by my OSX, Ubuntu and Windows boxes, and doesn't seem to spin up when connected. ...
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A little issue with a RAID setup
I have a Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 2TB external hard disk drive. Internally, it has two 1TB drives configured in a RAID setup. I recently purchased a Drobo and no longer want to use ...
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Recover USB HDD From Failed Firmware Upgrade
I just bought a brand new Western Digital "My Passport for Mac" I was running a firmware update on it (on a MacBook Pro) and it stalled out half way through. I let it sit overnight and in the morning ...
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WD External Drive, want to use a differnt hard drive in it
I have a WD MyBook 1TB external drive. I recently put the hard drive in my desktop and wanted to use the enclosure with other hard drives. I tried this and get driver errors.
I am using Windows 7 Pro ...
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How to re-do the hard disks in a WD Word Book Edition II?
I recently purchased a WD World Book II, a 2 TB one. I call it the "White Box". It has those 2 1TB drives, and they were in this RAID 1 config, only giving me about 1 TB. I could not delete the raid ...
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Super slow Western Digial External hard drive
I have 2TB of WD external hard drive.
I use windows Vista 32x. on DELL laptop Latitude D630 and connect through USB cable.
When I transfer from my C drive to external hard drive it transfer only ...
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Western Digital not recognized by Windows after power Outage on windows
I have WD Essential Plus 1.5TB (formatted in NTFS). It was working fine under windows and mac mini. While it was connected to the mac mini, I had an power outage and now the HD is not being recognized ...
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Why won't my Western Digital My Book Home 500GB drive mount on my Macbook Pro via Firewire?
I can connect the drive via USB and it mounts correctly. However, when I connect via FireWire, the drive powers down.
The drive realizes that it is plugged in. When I plug in via FireWire, the ...
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Why does Western Digital Smartware not detect my external HDD?
I recently buy WD Mybook Essential HDD 1 TB. I downloaded and install Smartware software in both my desktop (Windows XP) and laptop (Windows 7) but in both case the software is not able to detect the ...
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Western Digital Mybook is creating folders I didn't create
I have a WD MyBook which has been creating empty folders with a long string of numbers and alphabets and some shorter ones with just some numbers with a 0kb file in it
Some of these can be deleted ...
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Western Digital My Passport how is data stored
I have a Western Digital My Passport (external hard drive) and I had been using it to back up my Windows XP machine. The XP machine's hard drive crashed, so now I am left with the My Passport drive.
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1TB external hard disks - reliable or not?
I'm looking into finally getting a big external hard disk (will probably be usb-connectable) but I recently heard that 1TB (or bigger) external disks are prone to overheating and, eventually, stop ...
