Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 - WDH1U5000N 500 GB Hard Drive "shows strange files" Questions

...strange beep, trill, almost techno sound effect, which reoccurred once every 5 or 6 seconds. Now when I turn it on, it doesn't show up on my desktop and the sound persists. What can I do and is there ...

...shows all of my files and folders and actually gives the file and folder sizes. i have pictures, WM files, songs, AVI files on there and can not open any of them. i have notices that the HD doesnt ...

...shows a "New hardware detected" message in the tray, showing a Maxtor hard drive with a very strange serial (alpha numeric code with lots of special chars such as " % $ etc). This is an IDE drive I ...

...shows invalid shortcuts instead of the directories to my 800 gb of data please help! first, recover your files with data recovery program like asoftech data recovery program. ...

files in USB flash drive got named with weird strange characters & those folder / files cannot be copied or deleted.Reason: Virus infectedSolution:1. Click on  "Computer"2

...strange things. If you click on the start, then computer. It will show all hard drives on your system. If you cannot find your files. I would think your computer does not see the external hard drive. ...

...strange whirring noise about 6 months from the date of purchase and now my pc doesn't even recognize it as being there. I can't get to any of my pictures and music. the drive is failing,its hard to ...

...shows it with the yellow question mark and says can not start. it will not show up in 'my computer' as a external drive at all and now i've got drives lights blinking a strange sequence. bottom line ...

files and folders pen drives behave very strange...some say they are the ones like a betrayed friend...when u need the most they fail.... i still believe in 9 GB DVD...they are more dependable as they

strange because it has worked before now. You might have unsafely removing it from you PC and it led to data corrupted. You can recover data from hard drive with data recovery software.Then format the