Problems with WD My Book Home Edition

Please help me. I bought a brand new WD My Book Home Edition 500GB external
hard drive yesterday. Vista will not recongize it as a drive on the
computer. The computer sees that it is connected (in device manager and the
"ding-dong" you hear when you add a new device). I hooked it up with the
Firewire and the USB, with the same result. The drive is supposedly Vista
compatible. I downloaded the firewire drivers from WD. Since I cannot
access it as a drive, I cannot get to the setup.exe needed to use the drive.
Any ideas?
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TBenjamin

control panel/admin tools/computer management/disk management
does it show?? is it activated??

The Power button is inserted into two LED rings on the “binding edge”: the
external ring indicates power and disk activity and the other shows how much
data the drive currently stores. On the opposite side of the case there are
two FireWire 800, one FireWire 400 and one USB 2.0 port, a power connector,
and a Kensington lock hole.

No the only drives showing up are the hard drives.

Wait one! You downloaded the latest drivers to your C: drive; the driver
install setup.exe is on your C: drive in the download folder you chose.
There is no reason that you cannot run the setup.exe for the new
drivers; these are installed on your host computer, not the external
drive. Disconnect the external drive before you run the setup program.

Yes, I have downloaded and setup the firewire drivers and the software that
comes with the drive from Western Digital. But the drive does not show up as
a drive in Windows Explorer or Computer. I can see that it is connected
under Device Manager, as an other device or as WD SAM, but not as a drive.
The properties for it say that it is connected in port LUN 0 or 1. What does
that mean?

Have you assigned it a drive letter in Disk Management?

No. The external hard drive does not show up in Disk Management, only in
Device Manager, as an other device.

I have been fighting MyBook / Vista problems for a couple
of weeks with MB support to no avail. Ran across a blog soomewhere this
AM that sez uninstall Goolge Toolbar - did it and I have a MB again -
then I installed the beta version of Toolbar and everything is still
fine - don't know if this applies to you, but it's worth a try.

I am having the same issue. My WD Prem. Ed. 2 1tb HD was working fine
with Vista for almost 1/2 a year now. This morning i tried to access a
file off the drive and it took forever, i tired to re-boot the computer
as it can get slow since it always on working on things. When i
re-booted the drive was missing and it could not find it. After a lot of
time working on the problem i have managed the WD RAID program to know
it is thier, but it says it is BAD and that the A drive is missing, but
the computer only sees the drive as WD SES Device. I tried connecting it
to my laptop (with Win XP) and the same issue is happening on it as
well. It normally worked fine on the laptop with XP before today as
well.

Please help! I have over 900gb of info i can not loose! (and paying for
a data recovery would SUCK!!!)

[007dabomb]

Any luck guys? I have the same problem as above. Don't know what happened, the drive would not show in My Computer, I have tried it in 4 different computers with vista/xp. I can't access any of my data. Please help if you have found a solution. I am using WD Home Edition 250gb. I tried WD tech support, they are incompetent.

Sounds like it's busted. Can't come to any other conclusion given the
info you've provided. And if you think everyone can see what YOU see
in your "forum' (it's not.. it's just an inferior way to participate
in Usenet discussions where the rest of us use a news reader) we
can't.

Have you gone into Disk Management to see if it's listed there?

Control Panel (Classic Mode)
Administrative Tools
Computer Management
Disk Management

[IsntLifeWendyful]

Hi everyone~

I'm a newbie, please be gentle~ :-)

I am having the same problem with my WD EHD. It was working fine, then all of a sudden the computer would not recognize it, or couldn't find it.

I checked the Disk Management, and says Disk J: (Healthy, Active, Primary Partition) 298.08 RAW 9MB Unallocated (Online)


Here's the problem, I cannot access it through Windows Explorer. Every time I try to, it jams up my computer, the toolbar at the bottom disappears, and exerything freezes up, for a minute or two. Then I get a message that Explorer is not responding and is going to close.

I have a HP Slimline s3750t PC, WIN Vista 64-bit, Intel Core 2 Duo E7500, 4GB DDR2, Wireless-G LAN, 1TB hard drive. I have a Western Digital My Book Home Edition External Hard Drive 320 GB.

I believe that I've loaded the newest drivers. I even loaded the WD Drive Manager V2.115. I still cannot get it to work. I have ton of information on the HD that I cannot access, can someone please help?

Thanks in advance,

Wendy