Western Digital is a manufacturer of Hard Drive headquartered in Lake Forest, California.
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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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How do I get the Smartware tools working on the HDD itself?
WD My Passport 0740 - WD Smartware
I'm posting because I have a problem with the Smartware that was IN the HDD. A friend of mine accidentally deleted the folder Smartware (that I created and placed ...
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WD20EARS 2TB Compatibility Issues
I have a system that runs the Asus P5Q Pro mother board and I recently added the 2TB WD Green HDD (WD20EARS). I formatted it NTFS with MBR. The system has been running for a week now without any ...
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Access Western Digital My Book World II RAID array on my Ubuntu Linux
My WD My Book World II (Blue Rings) NAS has overheated, I think the motherboard is dead. I extracted the disks and plugged them in my desktop PC running Ubuntu Linux.
The disks seems to be alive, ...
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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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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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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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Western digital HD WD5000AAJS keeps suspending
I have a 500Gb Western Digital HD WD5000AAJS (ZZYFA0) which keeps to suspend very frequently.
When I access it after a couple of minutes I need to wait for it to spin up again.
I'm using Win7 ...
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hard drive raw read error rate 9
My main HDD is about 2.5/3 years old. All that time, it has been running with about 40-45 (temperature).
I have had a HDD failure before and it was really frustrating, I don't want that to happen ...
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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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Reading or writing with a 4 WD5000AADS drive RAID 5 array drops to 0 speed
Edit, 10/31:
Crash-- complete system lockup. Booted computer, had strange lag for visiting ANY webpage in Chrome.. Figured that either a network problem existed, or Chrome could not write to disk ...
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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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Mapping Western Digital My book World Edition whitelight
I have a WD Worldbook Whitelight, behind a DDNS configured router, with 443 and 22 ports forwarded.
Share folders on Worldbook are protected with username and password.
While I can access my ...
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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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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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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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My external hardisk is fully utilized all the time?
I Have a 2TB WD external hardrive, with an USB3 interface.
When copying a file to it, the transfer speed is very low (800KB/s ~ 1MB/s)
In the taskmanager (under the Performance tab) in windows 8 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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Load/Unload Cycle of a Hard Drive
Hard Drive Information:
Make: Western Digital
Model Number: WD5000BPKT
What the non-computer-fellas call it: Western Digital Scorpio Black
Age: About 2 to 3 months old.
Power On Hours: 127 ...
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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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3TB WD30EZRX is only recognized as an 1.8TB Disk - GPT formatted, UEFI-System - what can I do?
Searched through the net for about 3h now, tested anything that seemed promising - but still no 3TB! And I don't mean no 3TB partition - the drive is actually detected as 1.8TB by various programs!
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Any way to recover wdcompass.exe for Western Digital Windows To Go Drives?
I'm trying to test Windows To Go, and am using a My Passport Enterprise drive. I did not see Western Digital's instructions, where they specifically mention running a WDCompass.exe before applying ...
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WD Hard Drive Won't restore for iMac to use for Time Machine
I erased my data through Disk Utility before trying to use Time Machine and now the Hard jDrive wont get recognized by my computer and i can no longer repair it or anything. I can pull it up through ...
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WD Disk. Boot disk for patching bad sectors?
Is there an ideal boot disk that can be used to patch bad sectors on a drive from a live USB stick? Have feeling this drive is messing up and want to patch it before things get worse on them.
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Western Digital Passport Unlock locks again when it sleeps
My Western Digital Passport is password protected and whenever the drive goes back to sleep (or after a unknown period of time) the drive is locked again; as in I need to enter the password again to ...
