External Hard Drive Help!!!

[lilsensa]

Will someone please, please help me out!!!! I just bought a Western Digital My Book external hard drive....I can't seem to get this piece of shit to work on my computer!!!!!!111

I have WindowsXP and the USB port is spose to recognise it and run the damn thing, but its not...

I'm getting a bit frustrated now. its been like 3 hours and I cant figure this fucking thing out....Would anyone be so kind as to help me???

Also, can we please leave this in the GYY forum?? Thanks

[Kamal]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

is your USB port busted ? try a diff port. Also some USB hardware (if Windows auto installs is) needs a system reboot.

Also did you HD come with any drivers, you might wanna try installing those too.

[lilsensa]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

ive done everything....rebooted, un plugged, re plugged, check everything...went to the support forum for the product....still cant figure this shit out....

[Kamal]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

is it the port ? have you tried another port ? it could also be that your product is DOA

[ShawnD64]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

right click on my computer and go to manage. check to make sure that there are no unknown devices in your device manager.... this will tell you if you have the correct drivers for your drive. if there are any yellow question marks put in the cd that came with your drive, if no cd, check the website for downloads. re-install the drivers, then try again. if all of your devices look good check out your disk manager (also in the window that is opened when you chose manage after right clicking on my computer). check to see if the disk shows up in the disk manager, right click on the disk manager and choose refresh to see if it then pops up. if you still see no sign looks like the western digitial drive is shit. now, its whether your usb drive is fucked or your drive. try plugging something else into that same usb port and see if it works... if so send that piece of shit back to western digital. most likely the raid card in the drive is fucked....

[lilsensa]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

Thanks for everyones input....tested it out on a friends computer....wouldnt work either...so im takin it back...thanks for your help, ya'll

[ShawnD64]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

maxtor imo
had the best luck with them

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1025740

[GLD]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

holy cow did they get cheap!

[Kamal]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

I need to get me one of those and a TV Tuner card and I'm set

[lilsensa]

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hell yeah...i found a western digital my book 250 gb for 130 bucks....not too shabby

Kamal....you were right...it was DOA...took it back, got a new one, and it works perfectly

[arielus]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

WD offer usually quality products
you just had bad luck with yours, get a new one and you'll be fine

[feather]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

I go with Hitachi drives.

[peloquin]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

hell yeah...i found a western digital my book 250 gb for 130 bucks....not too shabby

Kamal....you were right...it was DOA...took it back, got a new one, and it works perfectly

how is it? i just bought one last week and expecting it to arrive today. got the exact one too, the Western Digital-My Book Essential 250GB External Hard Drive. had to get more storage for home. also have a 250gb external usb HD at work, not sure what the brand was...

[lilsensa]

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its good so far.. just put most of my music on it...a little slow on the transfer...i think it took like 1.5-2.0 gb an hour to upload...but, oh well, its good for storage and thats what i bought it for

[Kamal]

Re: External Hard Drive Help!!!

dude that is very slow.... have you connected it to a USB 1.0 port ?? I just got one yesterday (to reformat my HD on my lappie) and had to backup about 75 odd GB. Did it in about an hour....