Western Digital My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive "external malfunction" Questions

when i try to insert my HXD5 500 GB EXTERNAL HD, i get this message ''one of the usb drivers attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognise it. click on the messag

external hard drive problem. I have a portable western digital 500gb external hard drive and when I plug it into my computer, the computer doesn't take it. It doesn't give me any messages telling me ...

Malfunction I have a western digital hard drive on my tivo. The drive has malfunctioned. I want to transfer what is in the hard drive to another to save the information (and let it be usable). How can

...external hard drive malfunction error message I have a Verbatim 1tb external hard drive, USB, just started to come up with error message saying that Windows doesn't recognise the USB device, and that ...

my external hard drive when attached to the computer says the divice has malfunctioned You Have To Format Your Hard Drive To Make It Work.

Windows 7 states external drive 'malfunctioning' I have recently bought an Acer Aspire PC with Windows 7. I have two different WD mybooks and one of them is being rejected as malfunctioning - in the ...

external hardrive problem my motherboard recently malfunctioned and so i took my hard drive from my pc and put it in one of those generic external cases. problem is that my log in on my pc was ...

...remove it my computer does not recognize the Seagate external drive due to "previous malfunction" when the USB cable became unplugged before I could safely remove it Plug it into a different USB

...try it on different  pc, if aproblem continue that means that the usb controller on your external HDD is malfunctioning , you should have it fixed or replaced with exact same ...

external WD passport hard disk has stopped working just recently, i've been using it over six months but it just decided malfunction yesterday. I've tried several of the solutions posted but the thing