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I used it (not recently), a WD-10EAVS 1TB External, on Windows before, I tested the USB port with different non WD disks, all fine, I tested the disk itself on the same USB port with Seatools for Windows and it passes all and every test, It shows up in Disk Management, status OK, 1 Primary...

Hello, I having read on line about bricking hard drives with the puis setting have any other had any problems? I changed 9841 to 9879 and didn't have any problems was using a WD hard drive which by default puis is not enabled. thanks iosman

I am planning on using my WD My Book for the Macrium Reflect program. When I do use that drive, do I format it? The reason I ask is this morning I downloaded and installed WD software which WD tech said I should do so not sure what to do about that. Not sure if I can use the drive without some...

having read on line about bricking hard drives with the puis setting have any other had any problems? I changed 9841 to 9879 and didn't have any problems was using a WD hard drive which by default puis is not enabled

Hello! This one should twist your head a bit if you’re anything like me! I have a Pavilion M6 1045DX laptop and the HD crashed. It was 750GB so off to eBay I went to buy another one. I decided to buy a NEW SEALED HD so I bought a blue label WD brand new. (March 2014) Just for grins I wiped and...

I am running Windows 7 64 bit. I have 4 network external drives attached to my router via 2 Cisco NSLU2 servers. The drives connect when I boot the PC but after a while (it seems random) the drives just disconnect. I can click on my computer and bring the drives back one at a time. This is...

I have a WD 500GB drive. I installed W7 - cloned from a 2TB drive that has 4 partitions (100MB, 78.03GB, 363.20GB, 1.39TB(logical)) with the first 3 partitions. I then extended the last partition with disk manager to 387.63 which was all the unallocated space left. So the 500GB drive = 100MB...

I have a Tosh satellite L505D-ES025 that I purchased in May 2010.The hard drive ("HD") failed in June 2012. In checking the Toshiba forum for this model.I have noticed a number of owners have the similar problem with HD failures . Toshiba wants $250 for a replacment drive. I have installed a...

I bought a WD Network Hard Drive and I want to give a user rights to copy and to upload to the Hard drive but that's all because I don't want them to delete anything and I just forgot how to do it because it's been 10 years since I had to do this?

hi In an all win 7 env ,i have a 1 tb WD external hard drive shared with full rights to Everyone ,Administrators and Users. All machines were able to access the share but the next day even tho the share shows up it says you do not have permissions........ on trying to access the share. All the...

All my data on the PC is on D: I want to do two things: I want to back it up to a WD 3TB drive. I want to take that drive with me on the road and access the data directly. Any recommendations? Thanks for any suggestions jr

I have a WD Ext Hardrive Drive. I backed up my files at the office (Windows 7 OP System) yesterday. I wanted to access a file at home (PC loaded with Windows XP), but when I plugged in the Ext HD , a message comes up "USB Device not recognised -one of the USB devices attached to this computer...

Windows 7 64bit Asus P7P55D-E LX 8GB Crucial SDR DD3 EVGA GTX 260 Samsung 470 SSD 128gb (Startup Disc) Seagate 2TB WD 2TB <--- Problem Drive WD Velocirator 300GB LaCie 2TB external connected with eSata Last night i installed a new Bootup disk drive (128gb ssd). The PC started up fine with most...

Hi. I'm trying to install Windows 7 Proffesional x64. I have this same fail when i'm choosing two others hard disks: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The disk may fail soon. If other hard disks are available, install Windows to another location." 1st disk - WD 160 GB 2nd disk - WD 40 GB

My Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit OS got messed up so I restored the original image I made from DriveImage XML successfully. Now when my PC boots, I get the mobo splash screen and then just a cursor. When I put my Win 7 install disk in I can "press any key" to boot from it and the DVD goes right to...

WD 250 GB Powered External hard drive is NOT read by Windows 7!!! What the... Yeah, so I recently bought a new computer and stored all my old info on an external hard rive and windows 7 will NOT read the external drive! What is the problem here? Please help asap!!! -Jeff

I did a clean install of windows 7 professional over the Windows Vista Home Premium that came on my laptop (a XPS M1530) and it appeared to go smoothly. Once the install was completed I was having trouble with viewing screen savers and playing games (that I had played many times on my computer...

OH boy, I need help. Not sure what else I can try, please help (wife wants to shoot me). Quick overview: - build a system with 1 WD1101FALS HDD and installed Windows 7 64 bit no problem. All was good for few days until I got a bug to set up a RAID 10. - Went out bought 3 more of the same...

Hi, I've been all over the net trying to resolve this issue, and found many hotfixes, downloads from Microsoft and manufacturer, but to no avail. My external drive was recognized for the first month. Then, very suddenly, Windows 7 doesn't recognize it. It sees it, but prompts a "Need to...

Hi guys I am hoping I can get some assistance troubleshooting a new computer build and windows 7 install The system specs are as follows: P55 mobo Gigabyte P55A-UD3P i7 1156 2.8GHZ 8GB Kingston DDR3 10600 2 x 1TB WD Green Drives 7200rpm Heres my problem I go to install Windows which albeit...