Western Digital 500GB My Book World Edition 500 GB Hard Drive "mybook blue light flashes" Questions

...blue indicator lights on the mybook just remain steadily on, without flashing at all. I would like to fix it or at least be ablel to copy all my music files off the drive. help? check for the file ...

my western digital hard drive 320 gb is just flashing this blue light and its faint and making a ticking sound. my computer isn't reading it maybe the drive is defective.

...1TB wb mybook just flashes a blue light when plugged in (upper light once a

blue rings go out and then - nothing. I called WD's data recovery partners and got quotes from $700-$1500 to recover the data because it is a network device! Thanks Kellydam for the first clue. I took

...MyBook World Edition is a NAS accessed via network only. The USB connection is for an additional drive only. Therefore all these 'Answers' refering to Windows USB issues are superfluous. If the ...

...blue ring won't light if other drives are installed. I also read (in a couple spots) that the unit's O/S is stored on the hard drive (as opposed to be stored in Flash memory). If this is true, you ...

...MyBook stopped spinning I'm affraid my 4 month old external WD hard drive died. The worst part is that I bought it for backups, all my computer information and more information that is not on the PC ...

blue button is just blinking, slowly-- like fading-- on and off. It doesn't register anywhere on the computer. It doesn't have to do with the USB port either. Thanks :D PC used to recognize WD My Book