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how can i fix my drive or recover my info. i pressed canceled and tried to access my drive and when i clicked on it it asked again if wanted to format it. one day i came home from work and a meessage was on my screen that read that if i wanted to format my drive. Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. hi, ive had my wd my book essential 1tb for about three months and had stored a lot of info. Search Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. I plan on sending it in to get it warranted-but I want to recover my files first.
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WD MY BOOK ESSENTIAL 1TB NOT TURNING ON PC
Under computer management it says unallocated with 931.50GB data and in device manager it appears when i plug the device into my PC via USB. I am unable to view any of the data on the device. I moved ALL my music, photos and personal files onto this hard drive. Hi, I am just enquiring about my Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB external harddrive. Usually popping the enclosure open and then slaving it or putting it in a new enclosure fixes that problem. If it is not being seen in disk management then it is likely a communication problem with the USB enclosure box holding the hard drive and the computer. I shut my pc down and made a second attempt after an hour. (in device manager and disk management as well).
WD MY BOOK ESSENTIAL 1TB NOT TURNING ON WINDOWS
Today upon starting Windows a notification appeared 'Found new hardware: USB Composite Device' and then nothing. The drive does not show in the device manager or through My Computer. Re: WD My Book Home 1TB not recognized on XP And this thing is advertised for its reliability. There is no USB device acknowledgement of new device found. The light comes on and there are soft noises from within, but when I connect to my laptop, the drive is not recognized. As always please leave a comment if you have a question or contact me directly at ext You would need to go to disk management and then see if it is reporting as a mass storage device in the machine. Very late to this topic but will try to be brief. I have a WD 1TB external hard drive, supposed new without documentation.
WD MY BOOK ESSENTIAL 1TB NOT TURNING ON CRACKED
This card is removed in a matter of mere second once an external USB HD is cracked open from its plastic casing to reveal the bare HD and the attached SATA card which attaches between the HD and the USB cable.I have given what I think is the best solution to these problems. Heres a video on your WD drive for extraction, your part that failed is seen at 3:00Ĭountless 1000s of good external hard drives are thrown away each year because the owner thought the HD was bad when it fact it was the SATA bridge card which had failed.
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You will have to extract the HD and mount it in a HD dock (since its a 3.5" its not going into a HD enclosure) Western Digital WDH1U10000E My Book Essential 1TB Black () 2399. If its a 2TB, then your SATA bridge card (not the HD itself) has failed. Western Digital WDH1U10000E My Book Essential 1TB Black ().
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I downloaded a free tool called MiniTool Power Data Recovery. To make a long story short here is the solution to recover your data. I hope its not a 4TB or 3TB ? Ive been warning people about this drive in 3 and 4TB, it should be recalled I did how ever find a solution to recovering my data, now I have read that WD encrypts the data on there drives, which is why the drive/ partition showed up but could not read the data. (I did find a sort of slot that I stuck a pen into but I did not feel any mechanism depress or anything. And I apologize for my mistake(s) in English, as it is not my mother language. Joined: June 19th, 2014, 11:37 Posts: 42 Location: Switzerland Hi Everyone, I took the last 2 weeks to read your forum, but found not the exact same situation. I also looked for a reset button but could not find one. Post subject: WD Mybook Essential 1tb smoke. I looked for a power button but did not find one. In Disk Management, it shows as 'Disk 1, Unknown, Not Initialized.' In Devices & Printers, it shows up as 'My Book,' and when I right-click and select Troubleshoot, it returns the message 'Troubleshooting couldn't identify the problem.' I originally had Smart Ware installed with the device, and used it to backup many times. When I reconnected the drive, nothing happened.
WD MY BOOK ESSENTIAL 1TB NOT TURNING ON MAC
Since you already verified USB cord and port (almost never the source), and it has been working fine on your mac until now, its a near 100% certainty that your SATA bridge card is dead. I upgraded to an 8350 AMD processor and to do it I had to disconnect my external drive. I bought a second unit(My Book essential 1Tb) but the HD inside was 32MB buffer instead of 8MB(The one i broked).Nevertheless I tried the 32MB logic board on the broken HD and the unit got alive (spinning and lights on) but my system couldn’t mount the HD (using linux).I’m almost sure that if I could have the same HD model,it would be.