Thank you for helping us maintain cnet s great community. Wd my book partition recovery rescue partition from wd. When you looked in my computer it shows up as local disk f instead of it saying my book l like it used to. This means that if any single drive fails or becomes unstable. Formatting wd my book world edition external harddisk with. If the western digital showing up as unallocated, please right click it and select create partition to create a new simple volume with fat32 formatted. I took it apart and ran crystal disk info on the hard drive. Find the not initialized wd hddexternal hard drive rightclick on it and select initialize disk. Its worked for me as ive luckily have not had a disk crash in 25 years. Western digital my book essential 640 gb,external,7200 rpm external hard drive wdh1u6400cn.
I have a 1tb western digital my book hard drive and when i plug it in to the usb. Third party this, format this, backup your data that. I have a western digital my book world edition hard drive 1tb that has stopped working and i want to recover the data. Wd elements, wd my book western digital, my passport wd, we my.
Western digital my book duo recovery hard drive data. By default, your wd my book duo came in a raid 0 or striped configuration for capacity and speed. If you already have an older version of wd fat32 formatter installed on your. It comes with all the software you need to help protect your data, including wd backup and wd security software and is compatible with time machine. Help with western digital my book external hard drive. Theres no way to say what model of a wd drive is inside the enclosure without actually taking it apart, which i wont recommend not only because if you do so you will violate the warranty, but also because of the hardware encryption your my book has.
Why is my wd my book prompting me to format the disk. For now, i just want to back up my photos,music, video files and word documents. After launcing it, select recover drives option from main window, as shown in fig a. Mostly, none of the multitude of threads in the forums have any real solutions, or suggest to rma the hard drive with western digital. Reformatting western digital mybook to work on linux and windows unfortunately, i have found that it has this socalled smartware that prevents it from being used on linux. Disk verification, surface analysis, and bad track entry routines are also included in this utility. The info window will list the format under general. Western digital my book problem question and answer dti data. Reformatting western digital mybook to work on linux and. The other answer does a good job of how to use disk utility to format a normal drive, but not all of wd external drives will work with that. Rightclick computer manage to open disk management. I want to use time machine software to backup my macs.
If the drive started out on vista id assume it has been formatted using the ntfs filesystem. Then, a list of lost or deleted partitions will be displayed. I have a wd mybookworld 2tb network drive that was purchased and installed on my network as a backup drive for windows computers. Save on printer ink and toner to keep your office efficient and productive. Wd external hd error you need to format the disk before. Recovering data from your western digital my book external hard drive means more than just getting back a few files. There is no letter assigned to this drive and when i try to assign one using disk management, the option to assign a letter is grayed out and therefore not usable. Drag what ever you can get off it and onto another media. I found a chat stream on the web that indicated the wd controller might be the problem and the drive and data may still be good, and recoverable using ubuntu. Cant open western digital my book studio wdbc3g0020hal 2tb external hard drive i reformatted it from mac to pc and it doesnt show up on my computer this thread is locked. My book is a series of external hard drives produced by western digital. I have wd my book essential external hard drive, 2tb and was using it regularly in windows 8. Tried it in my computer, click l drive and it asks for format, but it wont.
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You may use an equivalent formatting program, if it formats 27 sectors. How to format an external hard drive to work with mac and pc. Malware attacks by downloading files from suspicious sites into the western digital my book, can cause harm to your files and makes the partitions inaccessible. It means recovering your favorite songs, restoring those documents you need for the project you re completing and returning photos. Dear dennis, i dont know whats going on but all my files on my external western digital my book are marked as read only. Fix wd hddexternal hdd not initialized, unknown with io. If you want to use wd my passport or any other hard drive on mac and pc. When i look in computer it does not show up under removable storage, which is where i thought it would be. Click the western digital end user license agreement link and read the.
I bought this western digital my book 640gb external hard drive usb connection this last winter. D2 thunderbolt series, blade runner, 2big quadra, mini disk, portable. Suddenly today when i plugged it in it showed me you need to format the disk before you use it previously when it was working fine it shows. So here you go, the steps required to disassemble a newstyle western digital my book drive enclosure. Do not wary, the device should be reinstalled automatically the next time you restart the pc and connect the drive.
Just in case i want to put in a larger drive later, or if the internal one fails. I was wondering if anyone knew if the hard drive is user replaceable. Hard drive replacement for western digital my book world edition ii. Here, select your external hard disk and click on next. Click apply and then proceed to execute the formatting. Is it possible to change hdd for 4 gb wd red ifixit. Install clean hdd in white light my book world edition.
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Why isnt my wd my book external hard drive being recognized. As you can see, you can also format western digital hard drive to exfat if you need to. I filled it up and now want to delete the data and start over. Other scenarios that lead to data loss from the wd my book external hard disk. Unfortunately, this wasnt an obvious process and this excellent article by scott cramer didnt apply to the newer version 1 tb drive enclosure i have. You would need to go to disk management and then see if it is reporting as a mass. Disk utility fails to format the drive as max os x extended journaled with a format failed. Can i replace the hard drive on a western digital my book. It isnt visible in my computer or disk management but it installs when i plug it in and it can be safely unplugged from the safely remove hardware icon.
Western digital hard disk drive up to 2tb disks are supported by. Reboot pc to keep all changes and then check wd external hdd on your pc then. Should you encounter any problem, please give us an opportunity to address it before returning this product. I need to use it for iphoto and it has the wrong format. You can format a western digital my passport external hard drive to exfat or. Innstall the external drive recovery application on your system and connect your wd hard disk to it.
Western digital my book recovery hard drive data recovery. External hard disks that i have used in the past have had no problems being mounted on either linux or windows. When you buy a western digital wd 1 tb my book external hard. You really need to check the device with another cable and on another pc. It seems that my pc wont allow me to use my external hard drive. Hard drive replacement for western digital my book world. Though its not obvious, you simply press on a spot in the middle of the my book mirrors top front edge and the cover will pop open giving you access to the drives. Excellent way to perform western digital my book partition. Your my book drive is formatted as a single ntfs partition for compatibility with all.
I have a western digital my book world edition external harddisk with blue rings. I have a situation where i have the dns321 with two 2tb wd20eads00s2b0 drives in a raid 1 configuration. Apparently the cd has a disk formatter on it, but i never inserted the cd the drive works fine. Western digital offers an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices, systems and solutions for businesses and consumers alike. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. For example you will see windows c or any other partitions your computer has. Good afternoon, i am sure this has been mentioned on here many times, but every time i search for my problem, i always get the same results.
I just connected for the first time a western digital my book essential edition 2. How to format wd my book live my book live wd community. Heres a kb article you can take a look at if you want about that. The power connector, interface port, and a security slot on the back usb 3. You have made a sensible investment in a western digital my book duo drive for its powerful dual drive performance, and builtin protection but right now, none of that matters to you. Western digital provides data storage solutions, including systems, hdd, flash ssd, memory and personal data solutions to help customers capture and preserve their most valued data.
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Hi there, as explained on the manual of the mbw, log to the configuration page go to advanced mode system tab configuration restore to factory defaults. I am trying to decide between a generic external case and the western digital one. I am thinking of buying the western digital my book essential external hard drive maybe 160 gb. It will also display other disks volumes, typically they do not have assigned drive name, that is the reason, the computer can not display these disks.
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