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How to fix: Western Digital My Book 500GB - fail to install drivers, is not accessible

The WD-My Book 500GB is regonized as a local disc in my system(Windows 7), but it's drivers fail to install successfully when connected via usb cable with computer. Then when i try to open …
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Upgrading disks in WD My Book Studio Edition II

About 18 months ago, I purchased a 1Tb Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II for backup of my home system. It has 2x 500Gb drives in it, which I had configured as RAID 1. One of the disks has now …
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How do I remove a MyBook’s “WD SmartWare” virtual CD from my desktop?

I recently got a Western Digital MyBook external hard drive to enable Time Machine. It has it's software installed on a "virtual CD" called "WD SmartWare" which shows up on the desktop any time the …
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What is the best solution for letting both Macs and PCs access digital images and videos on a network?

I'm looking for a simple way to share digital images and videos over a network to both Macs and PCs. I'm currently looking into three options: NAS, WD MyBook Mirror drives attached to a router, or an …
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WD My Book World Edition and Windows 7

This is my setup in the office: a DSL modem router attached to modem 2 PC's running Windows 7 (home edition, 64bit) connected to router via network cable laptop running Windows XP SP2 "connected" …
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USB to Connect Between External Hard disk and Computer— Reliable?

There is a related question here. I have a WD MyBook 1TB external disk, and I connect it to my computer using USB. Since I travel quite a lot, so I bring this MyBook with me, wherever I go. The …