Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB External USB 2.0 - WDH1U5000N 500 GB Hard Drive "windows smart test error code" Questions

Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) This is some information on from the Western Digital website: information library. ...

...Smart Disk Defragment (deep scan) by IObit. When running the later one I noticed that my drive file fragmentation was incredible! I have not run the disk defragmentation program regularly enough. I ...

...Windows was unable to save all the data for the file E:\ & the data has been lost. Note that I don't have E drive on autorun at all. The SMART Disk information for My Book gave 16 different ...