Western Digital My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive "interface detection failed" Questions

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...all my kids pictures on it. External hard drives of this type are mainly composed of a USB-to-SATA interface & a 2.5" SATA hard drive. If any of these components is defective, then you won't ...

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interface that has failed, or the USB cable that has failed, or the disk-drive inside the casing that has failed. Try a different USB cable. Open the casing, and remove the disk-drive, and temporarily

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...case is defective. Take it out and put it directly in a desktop, if now is detected then the case interface has failed - you need anew case; if it's not then it's dead, just junk it and get a new

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...of times and stopped. There is a sound like the hard drive wants to start working but then nothing. Remove the drive from the case and fit it to a new case. The interface in the old case has

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...computers - no go, so it's not a PC problem; 2. Tried replacing the cable - no go, so it's not an interface problem; 3. That leaves you only with the Firelite itself. An external hardrive would ...

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...in every usb slots there is on my mac and it's still undetected. Help!?! The interface in the case would seem to have failed. They are usually not the same standard as those used in a

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...those images. What to do? External hard drives of this type are mainly composed of a USB-to-SATA interface & a 2.5" SATA hard drive. If any of these components is defective, then you won't ...

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...interface board has most likely failed. If the drive sounds like it is spinning up without stopping then you have a number of options: 1. Return to place of purchase. 2. Open the case and disconnect ...

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...HDD). Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Mac OS does not recognise it. Is it a problem due to it being a USB interface - would it need a bit more power to access the files? Does not make sense for the drive

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...Try it with another computer. If it still does not work, either the disk has a problem, of its interface is burnt : disassemble the device, and mount the hard disk in another enclosure (perhaps

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