20 Most Recent Western Digital 500GB My Book World Edition 500 GB Hard Drive - Page 4 Questions & Answers

try to restart the computer.

you have damaged the hard drive to get your stuff back off it will cost about £800.00

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TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

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• Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
• Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
• Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
• Fix FAT tables
• Rebuild NTFS boot sector
• Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
• Fix MFT using MFT mirror
• Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
• Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
• Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.

TestDisk can run under

• DOS (either real or in a Windows 9x DOS-box),
• Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7 (x86 & x64),
• Linux,
• FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
• SunOS and
• MacOS X

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• BeFS ( BeOS )
• BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD )
• CramFS, Compressed File System
• DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
• Windows exFAT
• HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, Hierarchical File System
• JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
• Linux ext2, ext3 and ext4
• Linux LUKS encrypted partition
• Linux RAID md 0.9/1.0/1.1/1.2
  • RAID 1: mirroring
  • RAID 4: striped array with parity device
  • RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
  • RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
• Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
• LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
• Mac partition map
• Novell Storage Services NSS
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• ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
• Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
• Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
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Restore your computer to an older date (system tools / system restore). Try connecting your device into a DIFFERENT usb port after the process is complete.

If your looking for the SmartWare software, you can download it from this site. Just select the model of your drive.

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?level1=2&lang=en

Hello

At the link below you will be directed to a tip i wrote on this exact issue. Click on the link below to navigate to page.

Click HERE.

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Lock123

Some software in windows might be accessing the drive in background, use a software like USB unlocker so that you can close the software trying to access your drive.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_unlocker/

I know it sounds silly but I had the same problem and ended up moving it to a DIFFERENT power outlet where it worked fine. You may have already tried that but the symptoms I had were exactly as you described and that solution is what worked for me. And yes, I HAD used that outlet before so I don't know what the problem was - just what I did to fix it.
Secondly, if you survive this situation with your priceless photos intact, I suggest you get a 2nd book since they aren't too expensive and use a free program to keep them synced up so you will always have a backup. Either that or leave them on the hard drive and get a solution that will back them up to another companies hardware. I do that with photos as well. Good Luck!

I have ".Window 7." Sometime I see a icon and it shows the drive size and can't read and my work. Yes, I do save my work on my hard drive, but I also want to save it on my external drive. . I even reboot.

Is your drive warm/hot like mine was/is ?
Mine dropped offline 2 or 3 times a week.
Put a small fan blowing on it.... been up for two weeks now.

Unplug power. Hold reset button. Plug in power while holding reset. Wait until light flashes, then release reset button.

Hi there,

The WD500gb external storage requires a specific adapter supplied by WD itself. You can have it fixed on the nearest electrical service center for your convenience or you could buy an adapter with the same rating (same polarity as well) so you could use your drive.

I'd still recommend purchasing the original drive either from ebay or WD site:

http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdus/en_US/DisplayAccesoryProductDetailsPage/ThemeID.21986300/productID.108411100/categoryID.13096000/parid.13092600/catid.13096000

Hope this helps,
levibit

How to reset the username, password, and network settings of a WD My Book World Edition hard drive. Answer The directions below detail how to reset the username and password (for the Shared Storage Manager utility), and network settings of a WD My Book World Edition hard drive by using the recovery button on the back of the unit.

The username will be changed to "admin"

The password will be changed to "123456"

The network settings will be changed to DHCP (obtain an IP address automatically).

1. Please ensure that the WD My Book World Edition hard drive is turned off and all cables are disconnected from the unit.



2. Insert a paperclip or narrow tipped pen into the recovery slot on the back of the unit. Press and hold down the recovery button.



3. While continuing to hold down the recovery button, connect the power cable to the back of the unit.



4. Hold the recovery button down for at least 40 seconds while the unit boots up and then release the button.



5. The unit may take up to three minutes to boot up completely. It is only necessary to hold down the recovery button for the first 40 seconds of this boot up process.

Note: Western Digital recommends rebooting the computer system after making any network setting changes to the WD My Book World Edition hard drive.

then from WD software select General Setup->WD Anywhere Access settings->Reset.

Maye The File Contains Vius, You have to scan your hard drive with an antivirus.

hope this helps.

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Andrea

An external storage-device has four major components:

* the USB cable

* the power-adapter

* the disk-drive inside the enclosure

* the USB-to-disk-drive adapter inside the enclosure.

One of these components has failed.

Try a different USB cable.

Try connecting to a different USB port on your computer.

Try connecting to a USB port on a different computer.

Take a "multi-meter" and measure both the voltage and amperage output from the AC adapter, and compare with the specifications on the label on the adapter.

Open the enclosure, and remove the disk-drive, and then connect it as a "slave" disk-drive in a desktop computer, to see if it works at all.

Purchase a new, compatible, disk-drive, and install it in the enclosure, to "revive" your external storage device.

Get the part-number and serial-number from the label on your disk-drive, and access the manufacturer's web-site, and use "check warranty status", to see if they will replace the device, at minimal cost to you.

Note that W.D. has a "Customer Loyalty" program -- you can buy a new W.D. device, through the W.D. web-site, at a significant discount.

There exist commercial "data recovery" services that can try to repair your device, just long-enough to rescue and copy your files. For example, see: https://services.seagate.com/index.aspx?lng=en-US for a "no data - no charge" guarantee.

I had the same problem as everyone else here - 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 my MyBook apart (start with rubber seal around the edges, then "unhook" it top and bottom on front of device by inserting a flat tip screwdriver through middle slot).  I purchased a Gigaware SATA enclosure and pluged it in to my computer.  Nothing.  I didn't get access to my files until I used Explore2fs to view the ext3 file system.