WD external hardrive not working on Mac w/ Lion Hardware and Software macOS by sohaiby886 Hey guys so I purchased a WD myBook essential about a year and a half ago for … a tv, (so I can play my movies through my WD hardrive). After disconnecting it, my laptop isnt recognizing my… WD Essential anymore. I cant find it in Finder when plugging … Re: Wd hdd ext as slave drive? Hardware and Software Hardware by colweb … ports. And that was never a problem. According to the WD site it shouldn't be a problem to connect an… usb 2 port but [I]from the WD site:[/I][QUOTE]Note 2: WD recommends against using a USB 3.0 drive… Re: Wd hdd ext as slave drive? Hardware and Software Hardware by tinanewtonart … ports. And that was never a problem. According to the WD site it shouldn't be a problem to connect an… it at an usb 2 port but [I]from the WD site:[/I][/QUOTE] The model is USB 2.0.... with… wd and its soft ware? Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by laila christin well we have jut got the new wd network share 1 and had to download a program 2 use it, it all started nice until our cpus started to run slow and disconnects from the internet,,,,, we both uninstalled it and lost our wireless network card driver with the program MIO NET.. we both have windows vist and HP mashines... what happend? Wd hdd ext as slave drive? Hardware and Software Hardware by tinanewtonart … issue for winxp not to recognize the ext HDD of WD. Well more that it fails to assign a drive letter… WD my passport Hardware and Software by diehsi I have a WD my passport and when i plug it to my pc, the light turns on. Eventually, i doesnt appear on my pc. Re: WD Drive-to-Drive not copying all files Hardware and Software Hardware by fugsco … prior to starting the copy process. When I run the WD Data Lifeurad tools, the only option similar to format is… Re: WD Drive-to-Drive not copying all files Hardware and Software Hardware by fersail …! My Bios now sees the SATA controller, I used the WD Data life guard software to create the image of my… Data Set and retrieve data in WD Programming Databases by norfazilah … own because can't connect to the Northwind database at WD.I just can see this sample at my management studio… Can't See WD External Hdd In Win 7 Home Premium Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by cygnus2112 My new WD 320Gb works fine on my Win7 laptp and another XP desktop but will not work at all on my Win7 desktop. Tried windows update. Doesn't show up in My Computer or Disk Managament?? Any clues?? Thanks Cygnus2112 strip WD Elements Desktop hdd and use with other nas drive ? Hardware and Software Hardware by twoyorkie can I strip the WD Elements Desktop external hdd and use the hdd inside to fit to other NAS drive ??? Re: strip WD Elements Desktop hdd and use with other nas drive ? Hardware and Software Hardware by twoyorkie Thanks rch1231 it seems sense to buy an external drive and strip it because to buy a 7200 rpm sata drive bare costs from £110 upwards to £150 or so and I can get a WD external 7200 drive for £95 delivered...:) Default raid config for WD MyBook World (blue rings) Hardware and Software Hardware by ktsangop … know if there is a factory default configuration for the WD My book world NAS. I am helping a friend that… Re: WD external hardrive not working on Mac w/ Lion Hardware and Software macOS by rubberman You probably just unplugged it and didn't unmount it or select "safely remove" option from the disc icon. That probably damaged the file system. It can probably be fixed. If you don't need the data on it, you can reformat it. If you do, then you will need to get to a command line window and run fsck on the device/partition to repair the … Re: WD external hardrive not working on Mac w/ Lion Hardware and Software macOS by sohaiby886 ok well I do not ned the data on it so how would I go about reformatting it? Thanks btw! Re: WD external hardrive not working on Mac w/ Lion Hardware and Software macOS by sohaiby886 Since it doesnt pop up in disk utility, I dont know of any other way to reformat Re: WD external hardrive not working on Mac w/ Lion Hardware and Software macOS by kc0arf Hello. Just to understand, this is a USB external hardddrive that is not working in either your Mac, or on other computers. Disk Utility is Apple's authorative program to work with devices. Have you tried a different USB cable? You tried it on different computers without success, so it is either the cable, or something internal to the unit. Re: WD external hardrive not working on Mac w/ Lion Hardware and Software macOS by tompatrick @sohaiby886 Can't rule out the possibility of a hard drive failure due to some logical or physical corruption. You must find some utility to repair your hd, if its hfs formatted then free download Stellar Volume Repair and scan your hard drive with it. Re: Wd hdd ext as slave drive? Hardware and Software Hardware by colweb Don't know this particular hard drive, but it strange you need a driver for it in Windows XP. I have 9 external usb hard drives (from Maxtor, Seagate, IOmega and Western Digital) and have never installed any drivers for it. Used the Maxtors even under Windows 98. The fact that you BIOS has an option to set the external as slave, primary or … Re: Wd hdd ext as slave drive? Hardware and Software Hardware by tinanewtonart I cannot seem to get the bios to see it as a hdd for slaving. it seems to reporting it as a USB Device: MY BOOK in the dos startup before windows loads. How should I set the Bios? Re: Wd hdd ext as slave drive? Hardware and Software Hardware by colweb Aha, a Western Digital my book model. That should work without drivers in XP. Just plug it in and XP will find the drive assign a drive letter and its ready to use. In your case however, that doesn't seem to be happening. I can think of a lot of reasons why the drive is not always found, but the most likely is a problem in XP itself. [QUOTE]The HDD… Re: Wd hdd ext as slave drive? Hardware and Software Hardware by tinanewtonart [QUOTE=colweb;1208179]Aha, a Western Digital my book model. That should work without drivers in XP. Just plug it in and XP will find the drive assign a drive letter and its ready to use. In your case however, that doesn't seem to be happening. I can think of a lot of reasons why the drive is not always found, but the most likely is a problem in XP… Re: WD my passport Hardware and Software by rubberman I assume you are not using an external power supply, but are depending upon the USB port to provide adequate power for the device? If so, that is not a good idea. On most computers only 1 or 2 ports have enough power for a hard drive. Try it with the external power supply. Re: WD my passport Hardware and Software by pritaeas I have used a passport, and it required additional software. Not sure if that's still the case. Did you install anything? Re: Bios cannot detect new WD terabyte drive Hardware and Software Hardware by kaninelupus … difficulty you are dealing with is that many of the WD HDD's are not [I]pre-formatted[/I]...apparently to… Re: Bios cannot detect new WD terabyte drive Hardware and Software Hardware by seoulman2 … Vista friendly. I, too, am the proud owner of two WD 1TB drives (green)- both set up as USB. Each took… Re: Bios cannot detect new WD terabyte drive Hardware and Software Hardware by kaninelupus … Vista friendly. I, too, am the proud owner of two WD 1TB drives (green)- both set up as USB. Each took… permissions Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by lewashby …](/attachments/small/2/WD-TV-Live4.png "align-right") ![Permissions4](/… area I get the web page you see in WD-TV-Live.png but when I click the one …the way I don't remember ever creating for the WD device or my external 1TB HD) and the other…movies folder, not the whole device. I know the WD has to have write access to the device it'self… WD Drive-to-Drive not copying all files Hardware and Software Hardware by fugsco [COLOR=Black]Hello. I'm a newbie so if I am repeating an old posted question, sorry! I'm adding a RAID1 SATA pair of drives to my machine. My hope is to copy everything from my existing IDE boot drive (currently C: ) and running Windows and evrything else from the new set. If all goes well, I would reformat the old drive and switch drive letters, … Re: WD Drive-to-Drive not copying all files Hardware and Software Hardware by dcc You should either install the OS on one of the new drives and then transfer your files, or use a utility like Synmantec Ghost or Acronis True Image to make a mirror image of you existing drive and transfer that to one of the new drives.