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The 'blinking' light simply means the unit needs tending to. Once acknowledged, via config, the flashing light will stop. Sometimes your anti-virus program will block you from getting into config. So you might have to turn your AV off.
Sometimes the blinking starts because the drive is over 95% full and sometimes it means one of the drives inside is failing or has died.
Run the WD Discover Tool, go into to "configure", & acknowledge that over 95% of the drive is used if that's the problem. Once you do that, the blinking light
will go away & work like it did prior to the blinking light.. If a drive is failing then you might need to RMA it.
Try plugging the usb cable on a different port on the computer. If the light flashing is red, then there is a hardware problem on your WD. If this is still under warranty, then its best to have it checked from where you bought it or to any authorized WD service center. If its no longer under warranty, then you can open the WD and check for any disconnection. The inside contains a harddisk; you may want to disconnect the two connectors from the harddisk and reconnect them again.
Have you contacted WDE.. by email,or, phone? Seems like that the hard drive has had its bios info corrupted , due to possibly hooking it up to the pc(in the wrong order), or even, a power surge that you were not aware of... The Manufacturer can send you a link to upgrade/restore the harddrive bios...
sounds like you are using the wrong power supply. Check the amp output on the power plug you plug into the wall make sure its the same as the amp input of your external harddrive
Allright!! I dont know if this will work for everyone. Regarding
my previous post i had taken the hard disk out of the enclosure and
plugged it directly into the motherboard via sata to no avail. I then decided to put it back in for enclosure and thought i will try it again. In
device manager i realised the hard disk kept trying to refresh inself
and would cut off before it got recognised....playing with the
enable/disable option i managed to (somehow) get the drive working(cant
explain how yet) But it worked long enough for me to make my backups. So i would recomment trying to play around with device manager....might get it to work. Also
its intresting to know that if you try to claim on the warrenty using
the serial number on the enclousure you get only one year warrenty but
if you open it and enter the serial number printed on the hard disk
itself you get a longer warrenty..... Hope this helps Good Luck
This may sound silly,but sometimes if you put the drive in the freezer overnight it will work long enough for you to retrieve your data.Make sure you are ready to copy the data to another as it will likely fail again once it warms up.
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