My WD MyBook Essential External Drive is quite a few years old and I’ve never had any problems. Recently I had to replace my desktop computer and the new OS is Windows 7 (the old computer was XP). It’s been several months and I had no issues with my MyBook then all of a sudden today I went to access files from the MyBook and windows is telling me that the device is not recognized–error code 43. I have uninstalled the driver, reinstalled, ran diagnostics and fixes and I cannot get the computer to recognize the MyBook.
As a further note, I plugged the MyBook into my laptop which is running XP and I have no issue. I’m by far NOT a computer guru, but I consider myself pretty proficient at troubleshooting…but this has me stumped (and ticked!). I need access to that drive on this particular computer…and quickly…
Anyone have any solutions???
