Western Digital My Book Essential Edition  500 GB Hard Drive
Problem for Western Digital My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500...

Disk is powered on, but computer no longer sees




By triastro on Nov 01, 2009

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WD My Book 500Gb disk is powered on, but computer no longer sees it. XP no longer will install it when powered on and off. It does not show up on my computer. There were no hints of failure or problems. Can you help?

Clarification Request

Posted by emissionwiz on Nov 01, 2009

what operating system do u have?

Solution #1

posted on Nov 01, 2009
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lock123

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Rating: 88%, 116 votes
Hello

Here is how you go to fixing this problem. Just follow these steps and you should be set. Go to:

Control panel
Administrative tools
Computer management
Storage
Disc management

Now you should be able to see your drive in the schematic below. Now right click on the drive and choose to change drive letter and paths.

Now just assighn a new drive letter to the drive, restart and you should be set. Hope this can solve your problem.

Best regards
Andrea
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