Posted on Sep 24, 2009

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Hi. My Western Digital 500GB My Book World Edition 500 GB Hard Drive looses Ethernet connectivity and sometimes won't power up fully. Starts to boot and then stops. Checked power supply is ok. Any ideas?

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Tim Babcock

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Posted on Jun 11, 2008

SOURCE: death of a drive

That sounds like a head crash. You should take to a service center and get it fixed and/or inspected.

Anonymous

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Posted on May 27, 2009

SOURCE: defrag external ethernet had

Connect that to your PC. Go to MyComputer. Right click on the drive and select properties. Select tools tab and click on defragment now. This will start defrag process.

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