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Western Digital My Book Premium Edition WDG1C5000 500 GB FireWire 400 (1394a) Hard Drive Questions & Answers
My Book Premium purchased 10/2007 suddenly not
frist of all you have recover your data before u do any thing with HDD try it with any recovery software after that try to change your case still not detading then u r HDD is gone
try to recover your data first
Powers up but is not recognized by windows operating
This is a solution that worked for me, but should only be tried if you've reached the conclusion that the hard drive is dead, out of warranty and ready to dump it for a new one.
On the inside of the fancy casings of these external drives lies a standard sata or IDE hard drive like you would normally find on the inside of your desktop.
Try opening the case and removing the hard drive itself to plug into a desktop which has the same connections and see if that works.
I work as a tech support agent for one of the departments that just can't afford data recover and luckily with this solution I was able to save the hard drive and just plug it into their machine as an internal rather than an external.
I REPEAT THIS SHOULD NOT BE DONE IF THE DRIVE IS STILL UNDER WARRANTY.
Hope this helps, Cheers!
I ;have formatted the WD external drive and
You should not even try to install an operating system on an external drive. Windows looks at the "C" drive and installs programs to "C" drive. You are trying to put it on the "G" drive. You will have too many problems and wish you never had tried. Buy a larger main drive and partition it with two equal partitions. Then "Dual Boot". You will find how to do this on the internet. Just Google "Dual Booting".
Sir,
I have a Lenovo laptop.
If your HARD DRIVE was exposed to a magnetic field, this can happen.
Try a scandisck run.
Boot up in safe mode and run fix disk.
Cannot format my WD 1TB external hard drive
The hard disk is having bad sectors on its first 3000 sectors.the bad sectors are caused by degradation of the platter of the hard disk.OR the factory area of the hard disk has certain files called SMART, G -LIST and other log files.Unless one empties those log files with a good tool , one cant format ones hard disk.
Not detecting, beeping
This is likely a couple problems;
1. The hard drive is dying or is dead. You're looking at hardware recovery if this is the case. There are some tools such as Spinrite that might be able to recover the disk. (
GRCHard drive data recovery software)
2. The power supply on the computer/laptop is not functioning as well as it used to. Try using another PC to see if there's any difference in results.
Western digital 2tb my passport keeps flashing; not detected
Remove the drive from the external case it is in and connect directly to your computer - see if the bios recognizes it. If so, the OS will do so also and you can access it. Also means the electronics of the external case are no good. If not recognized in other machine, the hard drive has gone to hard drive heaven and needs to be replaced.
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