I’ve recently purchased a WD Mybook external hard drive to back up all of my physical media with. I’d had a lot of discs lying around, so I wanted to consolidate it all into one, physical package. But, the drive won’t read properly after only THREE DAYS of operation now. Windows 7 Professional is reporting that the drive needs to be formatted to even be used now, but I appearntly can’t format the drive either; The system states that the drive either isn’t connected or configured properly, or something like that. And, I know that isn’t true.
I just want to format this thing as quickly as I can, and return it to the original vendor immediately before I end up being stuck with it for good. This is not my first bad experience with a WD product. Can anyone help me in wiping this thing clean of all of my data?
Go intyo the device manager delete the driver for it disconnet drive and reboot system. When you plug the drive back in it will load a fresh driver. Did you backup manually or with some software?
I’ve recently purchased a WD Mybook external hard drive to back up all of my physical media with. I’d had a lot of discs lying around, so I wanted to consolidate it all into one, physical package. But, the drive won’t read properly after only THREE DAYS of operation now. Windows 7 Professional is reporting that the drive needs to be formatted to even be used now, but I appearntly can’t format the drive either; The system states that the drive either isn’t connected or configured properly, or something like that. And, I know that isn’t true.
I just want to format this thing as quickly as I can, and return it to the original vendor immediately before I end up being stuck with it for good. This is not my first bad experience with a WD product. Can anyone help me in wiping this thing clean of all of my data?
