Disk utility is within system preferences, or you can find it using spotlight. Datacent offers full range of data recovery services for your failed my book essential edition western digital hard disk drive. My desktop recognized it right away and i was able to view all my files without an issue. Hey, so ive had my 2tb my book essential for about 2 years and its only ever worked on my macbook pro. While the technology inside it is far more advanced, your hard drive works in much the same way. Feb 24, 2010 wd mybook is causing problems on boot up i have had my new computer for about 4 months now and have used my wd external drive on it for that long with no problems. I just got this drive about 10 days ago and it appears to have failed.
Some western digital mybook chassies have a problem with the power button getting stuck. Last night, i was playing some gears of war 4, which is saved on the external, and decided to take a break. Switch to raid1 configuration for redundancy and to mirror data on the wd red drives inside. This is easy to fix once you boot the drive after the debrick.
It was working earlier today and i was streaming media, using ctorrent, ftping to it, etc but i noticed it started being less responsive. It seemed quite simple to set up and i selected 4 drives that require backing up, but when i press back up it took 4 minutes to finish and only backed up about 3 folders on my c. I used the default settings as they looked good to me. My book world edition white light not responding external. Guide how to unbrick a totally dead mbl my book live wd. My western digital external hard drive wont start your.
Id like to create a custom nas from a wd my book live so i disassembled it, deleted everything from the hdd and successfully installed an ubuntu server with another pc. Sep 26, 2016 wd my book external drive not working posted in external hardware. Ive tried to check though the forum for a solution without much luck. Hi ive been having this problem since day 1 wih my wd my book wdbacw0020hbk. Aomei backupper is a professional backup and restore software which is designed for windows 1087xpvisa. Sep 21, 20 page 1 of 2 my book world edition white light not responding posted in external hardware. I had 2 2tb drives used for backup, each an exact mirror of the other. This, without access to the wd external drive, is impossible. Hi, i have just purchased a wd my book with the wd discovery software. Western digital wd my book pro edition data recovery. I recently bought a my book but havening big problems using it.
Then the troubleshooter told me, usb root hub driver xhci has a. Recovering data from a wd mybook live 2tb 3tb or similar. Wd backup sw could not find device repeatedly, even w tech support. Western digital my book problem question and answer dti. Hello, i have two my book world edition white light network hdds from wd and theyve worked fine. We offer free diagnostics, no datano fee policy, final upfront quote and competitive prices. How to fix bricked wd my book world edition white light or. I was able to access my external hd about a week ago, watched a movie off it and fell asleep. While backing up files to secondary internal drive protects against failure of the primary disk, saving important data to a removable. Western digital mybook open case recover data scott cramer. My computer recognizes the drive, and i can write to it and read from it, in fact i have saved my first complete disk backup. As if403 gbs of clinical videos lots of stuff i havent blogged about gone or maybe not.
And to stop it from disconnecting itself at short intervals. Unlike some other people with this problem, my hard drive isnt showing up on my pc windows 7 or my husbands macbook air, and although it has a flashing blue light when plugged in, it isnt making that spinning sound, which has me worried it might be a gonner. This driver enables special communication between your pc and windows and enables some extra features on the hard disk. How to recoverunbrickreset the wd mybook while light possible scenarios started by. Converted to ntfs file system and loaded the device with data. My 1tb wd world edition has been working fine since september 2010. Before few days, i plugged my 2tb external hard drive but it was not recognized. Ordered a similar model, wd 4tb my book desktop external hard drive usb 3. No other drive can work in the nas since all drives must be the same and cannot be upgraded even though they have a newer version of this western digital green drive called the wd20ezrx for a cheaper price. If you have used the power button to turn the drive off and on this. If i disconnected the wd drive the other drive would boot fine. It does offer a scan to fix it but wd does not recommend it without backing everything up on the laptop hard drive first. Page 1 of 2 my book world edition white light not responding posted in external hardware. If you are using the manual update method, do not rename the firmware file.
Wd my cloud kisisel bulut depolama incelemesi youtube. Western digital my book problem question and answer dti data. The drive works fine once it is up and running, but if i shut down my pc, i have to pull the plug and reconnect. Hello, i have two my book world edition white light network hdds from wd. Wd my book home edition 1 tb bought from costco last week. I recently bought a wd my book,but now my computer will not boot if wd my book is plugged in. Mar 14, 2011 western digitals mybook drives are very convenient and popular storage options, but if the drive stops working then you might have success by giving it a quick love tap. Put on a record, let it play for a while, then cut the power. As stated, boot into setup bios go to the boot tab. The issue is that when you power it up you can only hear a faint clicking sound and you dont see any lights on the front of the my book. How to recoverunbrickreset the wd mybook while light. Trying to create a system image with a wd my book essentials. Unable to boot windows with external hard drive attached.
We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. Western digital mybook hard drive shutting down periodically. I tried plugging into my pc running windows 8, and it made the sound that indicated it recognized something despite no drive popping up. Since the most recent crash, however, windows wont boot. This article was originally written in 20 and applies to a fairly old model of the wd mybook live. How to fix bricked wd my book world edition white light or install. And uefi has been used in windows 7, as joe mentions, it is just that windows 8 uses secure boot which requires a uefi configuration. I have to reboot to make answered by a verified tech support specialist we use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. What to do if wd backup is not working windows 108. Sometimes the platter motor may also restart between boot up attempts and the motor will rev. It has been permanently connected to my home network, and besides placing a load of data on there after first purchasing the drive, ive had very little cause to use it mainly because i was crushed by how slow it is. They would only boot up to the first windows splash screen and stop. When i used my enclosure, fdisk produced a list with my four partitions right at the bottom. When a computer hangs after the bios splash screen while being connected to an.
My wd book boots up with my mac and then eventually stops displaying the files on it. I have to reboot to make answered by a verified tech support specialist. A network drive on the nas is password protected username password on the mycloud using the old net use functionality allows to connect to the drive and then it will showup in. As i have a lot of personal pictures, videos and documents stored only on my laptops hard drive, i would like to back these up before trying the nuclear option. Western digital hard drive problems and data recovery.
Macbook will not start up after macos update, howto fix. Apr 29, 2012 the 2tb drive is the wd caviar that came from my mybook world edition. I went to disk management, but i couldnt find the drive there also. I tried assigning a letter drive to it but that didnt seem to work. Apr 25, 20 this article was originally written in 20 and applies to a fairly old model of the wd mybook live. Nov 14, 2019 check apples disk utility to see if an external drive is showing up. I can access the admin account on my router but that is the limit of my knowledge. Oct 15, 2015 hi ive been having this problem since day 1 wih my wd my book wdbacw0020hbk.
It worked that way from the time i first purchased it. Why do i have to physically disconnectconnect my book from the mains to start the drive. Western digital raptor drive with failed readwrite heads it can also be the case that the hard drive failure takes the following form, it spinsup, the heads attempt to read, fail to do so and the drive then simply shutsdown. Or can i scan and fix without losing any of my documents all my research for a book and about 10,000 pictures help. Funny is that when i get the cable out of the port windows boots. When the record stops spinning, the music no longer plays. Datacent offers full range of data recovery services for your failed my book pro edition western digital hard disk drive. One solution to the boot failure problem is to disconnect the hard drive from. Western digital 3tb my book desktop external hard driveusb 3. Wd 12tb my book duo desktop raid external hard drive usb.
Problems booting a pc with an external usb drive connected. Tech my wd my book 4tb just stopped working with my xbox. It seems to have something to do with the explorer. Enjoy the benefits of mobile storage with this western digital my book essential edition 160 gb external hard drive. I have followed one of the faqs on the western digital web site which mentions accessing the shared storage manager and followed the procedure. Used 100% of processor and i have to unplug the drive and hard boot my. Nov, 2012 trying to create a system image with a wd my book essentials, 3 tb, usb 3. To fix wd backup not working issue once for all and to have a better backup experience, youd better use a piece of different thirdparty backup software. When i got home from work, i decided to reboot it since i could no longer access downloader and it was hit or miss on the web administration mostly miss. My wd book boots up with my mac and then eventually stops.
I have an external seagate backup plus which will not allow me to restart with it connected. Then i attempted a firmware update, which failed, and my desktop computer no longer recognized the drive. Ive tried all of the troubleshooting options other than the wipe everything and reinstall windows 10 option. Then i plugged the drive to other port, but nothing worked. Using win 10 on new ssd, wd my book backup sw does not work. Raid0 mode provides superfast performance with up to 360mbs1 sequential read speeds using the usb typec port. The problem is that when i connect it to the usb 3. Equipped with social media and cloud storage import, password protection and perfectly paired with wd backup or time machine, my book desktop storage helps keep your files safe. The my book duo drive is desktop raid storage with massive capacity ideal for storing photos, videos, documents and music. How i rescued my data from a 3tb wd my book external hard drive. The procedure here may well not work for you, please just use it for ideas. The computer would not boot about every 3rd boot or so when the my book home edition hard drive was connected. Why does my computer not boot with external hard drive. Indeed, on friday, april 4, wd claimed that most my cloud and my book live device owners are now connected.
God bless you, i been tryin to extract the hdd from the wd enclosure for a week, i finally figured out what wd has been doing. Wd mybook is causing problems on boot up windows 7. When i awoke the next morning, powered on my laptop, it wouldnt boot up so i shut it down and. Wd my book external hard drive does not boot up wd community. Read element failure causes other drive not to boot. Feb 21, 2019 my wd book boots up with my mac and then eventually stops displaying the files on it. Now when i turn on my computer it gives me the following message. Dec, 2015 wd my book 3tb ext hdd unknown not initialized hello, new here to this forum. The orginal issue was, i have two bootable drives the other is a seagate, this problem kepted both drives from booting not at the same time though. Western digital my book 500 gb hard drive not starting up super. I had a1 tb my book essential which i bought from a store it worked fine the day i bought it and then i move my data into it and then i turned it off, after a few days i tried to start it again with no luck the drive wont just boot up. There is a small thump when the drive starts or stops, which it frequently does, but otherwise it is very quiet. Also, check the comments as a lot of other people have tips. If your system drive has any spaces in its name, then put the name in single quotes.
Only top led is blinkingflashing and mbwe doesnt appear in my network environment. Ive probably caused a boot fail issue after installing and using paragon hard disk manager. If the drive is connected to the computer, via usb3 or usb2, the computer will not boot up. Used it successfully today, and after getting frustrated with transfer speeds, decided to upgrade the. I had a wd my book external hard drive that i bought 12 years ago and never had a problem, bought a new one because of almost full space on the old drive. Downloads download software and updates for your wd product at. Western digital wd my book pro edition data recovery datacent. System will stop all services, clear cache and shut down gracefully. My western digital 1 tb external hard drive is not showing in my computer. Move the wd drive to last drive or take it out of the boot order all together.
Hello, i am new at this community and i need help since i already spend 3 days trying to solve this problem. My book essential wont boot, disk doesnt contain an. Doing so will cause the manual update to fail and can corrupt the system. Yea the 2 folders thing, and it just stops and says data is invalid. The wd wouldnt boot either way, which i would understand. If you get a smart fail error message in the dashboard then ssh into the drive. The needle needs the record under it to move in order to produce any sound. Recently my 3tb wd my book gave up and would not power on, this is how i managed to rescue all of my 2. Hi folks, a friend of mine has given me his my book to test for him.
No more 2025 second delayed bootups while the bios analyzes the usb connected external hard drive. At start drive makes a few clicks, then slows down and finally stops the motor. Western digitals mybook drives are very convenient and popular storage options, but if the drive stops working then you might have success by giving it. Other bad drives, when failed, especially old models, are making nonstop clicking sound. Anyway, mbwe boots from nas os written on disk, so you cant start mbwe. It also seems to fix the issue of hanging windows when booting up. Been searching and reading for the past week trying to get my hdd to work. External drive failure wd my book essential 2tb my workaround all things dentistry. Western digital wd my book essential edition data recovery. Im running windows 7 and an older my book essentialive had this problem for some time, but now getting very tired of groping around behind the pc for the plug.
The magnetic readwrite heads inside your hard drive. Wd tells me the drive interface has failed on both drives, at the same time. Those were wd drives, replaced them with this model only because i ran out of space. Mbwe ii white light boot unsuccessful wd community. Wd my book not initialized unallocated windows 7 help forums. Connecting from windows to a wd mycloud nas drive didnt work any more after windows 10 upgrade.
Why isnt my wd my book external hard drive being recognized. Ive owned the wd my book 4tb for well over a year now, and ive never had any issues from it. I updated the computer bios but still had boot issues. But it wont boot with its own logicboard system because after some research i have to realize that its a powerpc architecture stuff. Western digital hard drives and continue to buy them despite the failure of the. Repair guides and support for external portable storage by western digital including the my book series, my passport and others. Tech my wd my book 4tb just stopped working with my xbox one. My book duo desktop raid storage user manual western digital. For example, my macbook boot drive is called macbook hd, so the command i would type is. Western digital hard drive data recovery the typical sign of western digital wd drive failure. The hard reset will set back you wd my cloud back to its factory default. Help rescuing the data from my mybook world edition avforums. Just bought a wd my book 4tb desktop hard drive and its causing a major problem. Western digital users are fed up with my cloud failures.
Windows answered by a verified tech support specialist. I have a wd 1tb my book and it suddently stopped working after having for. After doing that, the external hard drive doesnt work on my macbook pro. Similar situation is with wd my book world edition i white light or with my. I bought a western digital my book essential edition 1tb external hard drive in july 09. Hi all, i have a 1tb my book world edition white been sat stationaryuntouched since i bought it 10 months ago logged in yesterday, just to reboot it always figure its healthy to reboot devicesservers every few months bad move, when i logged back into the web interface, it says drive not reconised, and failed to mount drive. Connect to my laptop dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 14. I also cant see it on my computer with a different cable and power source they work fine for my own my book.
External drive failure wd my book essential 2tb my. Recover data hhd hard drive from broken external western. Hi guys, i have western digital external hdd 2 tb green that seems to have stopped working. In the case of the western digital my book, i had to download and install the windows ses driver in order for windows to boot up properly. Windows 10 wont boot, need to backup personal files to. Wd my book hw recognized by cpu, could manually copy files, but unable to do full backup. Accessing nas wd mycloud not possible from windows 10. Wd my book external drive not working external hardware. Hi, just bought a wd my book 4tb desktop hard drive and its causing a major problem. If your drive stops working, the rescue data recovery plan will attempt to. Heres some more info it doesnt show up in my computer or disk management however. If your drive stops working, the rescue data recovery plan will attempt to recover the data from the failed drive and recovered data will be returned on a media storage device or via secure cloudbased data storage. If your product is not listed above, please visit the product page. Backing up important data provides essential access to business files and records in the event of a system failure or disaster.
So, i plugged my 6tb or 4tb drive into my computers usb 3. When the wd mybook live 3tb nas was released, i went out and bought one and promptly put all my stuff on it. Jan 15, 2019 the my book live duo was purchased in july 2012 and the original drive wd20earx went bad approximately 2years later. Im using windows 7 and it hangs during the bios detection, it does not even get into the part where windows shows it windows starting message. Apr 30, 2014 the secure boot configuration is not involved in your situation. The my book drive is trusted desktop storage designed to complement your personal style with a massive amount of space to store your photos, videos, music and documents.
Can anyone help me to backup the data from my hard drive. My computer wont boot up with the external usb hard drive. If suddenly your mbwe has stopped working, firstly decode your mbwe situation by leds. Western digital s mybook drives are very convenient and popular storage options, but if the drive stops working then you might have success by giving it a quick love tap. I bought brand new wd caviar green hard disks and put them into my book world edition ii white light case but surprisingly it doesnt work or even start. Doing so may cause the device to malfunction or unable to boot. Wd 3t usb 3 external failed mount at boot time ask ubuntu. Drive status check the drive status check is a failureprediction function that continuously. Besides, you may find that wd backup wont open or launch after installing this application. External drive failure wd my book essential 2tb my workaround duration. For about 10 days i tried everything to get this to plug and play, which it didnt ever.
I have tried connecting the my book directly to my computers ethernet port it does the same thing. I have a western digital my book essentials 1tb wd0h1u00 that would power up when my pc was turned on and power off when the pc was powered off or restarted. The sounds made by failed hard drives and what they mean for. Hard drive is not showing up on my computer western. Tips for getting started with the wd my book backup drive. If it is visible, then click the option to mount, which should make it visible on the desktop and in the external drives option in the finder menu.