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grendel824 · 12-08-2007, 05:31 AM

The drive was in an external case - it was working for the past six months or so, if that's what you're asking. Or are you saying I should open the plastic casing it came in and try to install it somewhere inside my computer's case? I guess that would be possible, but I don't think there's much room for it and I can't afford to be taking my PC apart at the moment (finals, job search, need the computer working for all of it).

I'm not sure how to tell what the file system was - I thought I remember seeing something online about these WD MyBook drives being NTFS when I started looking stuff up to try to figure out my problem, but I'm not 100%.

There was only one partition, though - I originally just took it out of the box it came in, plugged it in, and stored stuff on it. My PC would occasionally "lose" the drive, in which case I had to sometimes unplug the USB cable and shut down the PC, then plug it in again before turning it on, which would get it recognized again.

12-08-2007, 05:31 AM	#9 (permalink)
grendel824 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mission Viejo, CA Posts: 16 OS: Win98	Re: External HD "not formatted" all of a sudden The drive was in an external case - it was working for the past six months or so, if that's what you're asking. Or are you saying I should open the plastic casing it came in and try to install it somewhere inside my computer's case? I guess that would be possible, but I don't think there's much room for it and I can't afford to be taking my PC apart at the moment (finals, job search, need the computer working for all of it). I'm not sure how to tell what the file system was - I thought I remember seeing something online about these WD MyBook drives being NTFS when I started looking stuff up to try to figure out my problem, but I'm not 100%. There was only one partition, though - I originally just took it out of the box it came in, plugged it in, and stored stuff on it. My PC would occasionally "lose" the drive, in which case I had to sometimes unplug the USB cable and shut down the PC, then plug it in again before turning it on, which would get it recognized again.