Fishdoc wrote:
philo

The only data on the drives is backups of my computers both of which
fortunately are currently functioning correctly. If I could initialize
the drives, I could re-run the backups. Western Digital Support tells
me the "Drive Interface" has failed, seems strange that the same thing
would happen to two different drives at the same time.

Any ideas?





What that means is that the electronics in the USB enclosure seemingly
has failed.

Since it's happened with two different devices my *guess* is that there
is a *driver* problem as I find it unlikely that two drives would fail
at the same time

My guess is the hard drives themselves are fine
and if you installed them internally...
rather than using the USB enclosure...they'd probably work


I've visit the WD's website and see if they have any updated Vista
drivers for those enclosures