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Problems with WD My Book Home Edition
Please help me. I bought a brand new WD My Book Home Edition 500GB external
hard drive yesterday. Vista will not recongize it as a drive on the computer. The computer sees that it is connected (in device manager and the "ding-dong" you hear when you add a new device). I hooked it up with the Firewire and the USB, with the same result. The drive is supposedly Vista compatible. I downloaded the firewire drivers from WD. Since I cannot access it as a drive, I cannot get to the setup.exe needed to use the drive. Any ideas? -- TBenjamin |
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Problems with WD My Book Home Edition
control panel/admin tools/computer management/disk management
does it show?? is it activated?? The Power button is inserted into two LED rings on the “binding edge”: the external ring indicates power and disk activity and the other shows how much data the drive currently stores. On the opposite side of the case there are two FireWire 800, one FireWire 400 and one USB 2.0 port, a power connector, and a Kensington lock hole. peter -- DISCLAIMER: If you find a posting or message from me offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, please ignore it. If you don't know how to ignore a posting, complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate... ;-) "TBenjamin" wrote in message ... Please help me. I bought a brand new WD My Book Home Edition 500GB external hard drive yesterday. Vista will not recongize it as a drive on the computer. The computer sees that it is connected (in device manager and the "ding-dong" you hear when you add a new device). I hooked it up with the Firewire and the USB, with the same result. The drive is supposedly Vista compatible. I downloaded the firewire drivers from WD. Since I cannot access it as a drive, I cannot get to the setup.exe needed to use the drive. Any ideas? -- TBenjamin |
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Problems with WD My Book Home Edition
No the only drives showing up are the hard drives.
-- TBenjamin "peter" wrote: control panel/admin tools/computer management/disk management does it show?? is it activated?? The Power button is inserted into two LED rings on the “binding edge”: the external ring indicates power and disk activity and the other shows how much data the drive currently stores. On the opposite side of the case there are two FireWire 800, one FireWire 400 and one USB 2.0 port, a power connector, and a Kensington lock hole. peter -- DISCLAIMER: If you find a posting or message from me offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, please ignore it. If you don't know how to ignore a posting, complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate... ;-) "TBenjamin" wrote in message ... Please help me. I bought a brand new WD My Book Home Edition 500GB external hard drive yesterday. Vista will not recongize it as a drive on the computer. The computer sees that it is connected (in device manager and the "ding-dong" you hear when you add a new device). I hooked it up with the Firewire and the USB, with the same result. The drive is supposedly Vista compatible. I downloaded the firewire drivers from WD. Since I cannot access it as a drive, I cannot get to the setup.exe needed to use the drive. Any ideas? -- TBenjamin |
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Problems with WD My Book Home Edition
TBenjamin wrote:
Please help me. I bought a brand new WD My Book Home Edition 500GB external hard drive yesterday. Vista will not recongize it as a drive on the computer. The computer sees that it is connected (in device manager and the "ding-dong" you hear when you add a new device). I hooked it up with the Firewire and the USB, with the same result. The drive is supposedly Vista compatible. I downloaded the firewire drivers from WD. Since I cannot access it as a drive, I cannot get to the setup.exe needed to use the drive. Any ideas? Wait one! You downloaded the latest drivers to your C: drive; the driver install setup.exe is on your C: drive in the download folder you chose. There is no reason that you cannot run the setup.exe for the new drivers; these are installed on your host computer, not the external drive. Disconnect the external drive before you run the setup program. Q |
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Problems with WD My Book Home Edition
Yes, I have downloaded and setup the firewire drivers and the software that
comes with the drive from Western Digital. But the drive does not show up as a drive in Windows Explorer or Computer. I can see that it is connected under Device Manager, as an other device or as WD SAM, but not as a drive. The properties for it say that it is connected in port LUN 0 or 1. What does that mean? -- TBenjamin "Quaoar" wrote: TBenjamin wrote: Please help me. I bought a brand new WD My Book Home Edition 500GB external hard drive yesterday. Vista will not recongize it as a drive on the computer. The computer sees that it is connected (in device manager and the "ding-dong" you hear when you add a new device). I hooked it up with the Firewire and the USB, with the same result. The drive is supposedly Vista compatible. I downloaded the firewire drivers from WD. Since I cannot access it as a drive, I cannot get to the setup.exe needed to use the drive. Any ideas? Wait one! You downloaded the latest drivers to your C: drive; the driver install setup.exe is on your C: drive in the download folder you chose. There is no reason that you cannot run the setup.exe for the new drivers; these are installed on your host computer, not the external drive. Disconnect the external drive before you run the setup program. Q |
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Problems with WD My Book Home Edition
Have you assigned it a drive letter in Disk Management?
"TBenjamin" wrote in message ... Yes, I have downloaded and setup the firewire drivers and the software that comes with the drive from Western Digital. But the drive does not show up as a drive in Windows Explorer or Computer. I can see that it is connected under Device Manager, as an other device or as WD SAM, but not as a drive. The properties for it say that it is connected in port LUN 0 or 1. What does that mean? -- TBenjamin "Quaoar" wrote: TBenjamin wrote: Please help me. I bought a brand new WD My Book Home Edition 500GB external hard drive yesterday. Vista will not recongize it as a drive on the computer. The computer sees that it is connected (in device manager and the "ding-dong" you hear when you add a new device). I hooked it up with the Firewire and the USB, with the same result. The drive is supposedly Vista compatible. I downloaded the firewire drivers from WD. Since I cannot access it as a drive, I cannot get to the setup.exe needed to use the drive. Any ideas? Wait one! You downloaded the latest drivers to your C: drive; the driver install setup.exe is on your C: drive in the download folder you chose. There is no reason that you cannot run the setup.exe for the new drivers; these are installed on your host computer, not the external drive. Disconnect the external drive before you run the setup program. Q |
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Problems with WD My Book Home Edition
No. The external hard drive does not show up in Disk Management, only in
Device Manager, as an other device. -- TBenjamin "Colin Barnhorst" wrote: Have you assigned it a drive letter in Disk Management? "TBenjamin" wrote in message ... Yes, I have downloaded and setup the firewire drivers and the software that comes with the drive from Western Digital. But the drive does not show up as a drive in Windows Explorer or Computer. I can see that it is connected under Device Manager, as an other device or as WD SAM, but not as a drive. The properties for it say that it is connected in port LUN 0 or 1. What does that mean? -- TBenjamin "Quaoar" wrote: TBenjamin wrote: Please help me. I bought a brand new WD My Book Home Edition 500GB external hard drive yesterday. Vista will not recongize it as a drive on the computer. The computer sees that it is connected (in device manager and the "ding-dong" you hear when you add a new device). I hooked it up with the Firewire and the USB, with the same result. The drive is supposedly Vista compatible. I downloaded the firewire drivers from WD. Since I cannot access it as a drive, I cannot get to the setup.exe needed to use the drive. Any ideas? Wait one! You downloaded the latest drivers to your C: drive; the driver install setup.exe is on your C: drive in the download folder you chose. There is no reason that you cannot run the setup.exe for the new drivers; these are installed on your host computer, not the external drive. Disconnect the external drive before you run the setup program. Q |
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Problems with WD My Book Home Edition
TBenjamine - I have been fighting MyBook / Vista problems for a couple of weeks with MB support to no avail. Ran across a blog soomewhere this AM that sez uninstall Goolge Toolbar - did it and I have a MB again - then I installed the beta version of Toolbar and everything is still fine - don't know if this applies to you, but it's worth a try. thanx Bob -- rjpbobp |
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Problems with WD My Book Home Edition
I am having the same issue. My WD Prem. Ed. 2 1tb HD was working fine with Vista for almost 1/2 a year now. This morning i tried to access a file off the drive and it took forever, i tired to re-boot the computer as it can get slow since it always on working on things. When i re-booted the drive was missing and it could not find it. After a lot of time working on the problem i have managed the WD RAID program to know it is thier, but it says it is BAD and that the A drive is missing, but the computer only sees the drive as WD SES Device. I tried connecting it to my laptop (with Win XP) and the same issue is happening on it as well. It normally worked fine on the laptop with XP before today as well. Please help! I have over 900gb of info i can not loose! (and paying for a data recovery would SUCK!!!) -- ivellios99 |
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Problems with WD My Book Home Edition
Any luck guys? I have the same problem as above. Don't know what happened, the drive would not show in My Computer, I have tried it in 4 different computers with vista/xp. I can't access any of my data. Please help if you have found a solution. I am using WD Home Edition 250gb. I tried WD tech support, they are incompetent. -- 007dabomb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 007dabomb's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/007dabomb.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/899609.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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