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arrogantmodesty · 08-18-2008, 01:22 AM

Just after my laptop decided to crash I bought a Western Digital My Book home edition 2 [500 gb] for ovbious reasons. It worked wonderfull on my desktop computer, which is also running XP, then I finally got a hold of a boto disk for windows so I could just reformat all the crap on my laptop and put windows back on. Now the external harddrive does not work.

Windows makes that little sound to say that it registers that the thing is plugged in.

windows shows it in the device manager.

but I can not access it in windows explorer/my computer.

frustrating, no?

anyway i have figured out my last hope is to possibly reformat the drive, can any one think of a way to pull the stuff off of it before I do this, or should I just reformat it and hope that it works again?

08-18-2008, 01:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
arrogantmodesty Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2 OS: XP sp2	[SOLVED] WD My Book, opinions ahd help, please! Just after my laptop decided to crash I bought a Western Digital My Book home edition 2 [500 gb] for ovbious reasons. It worked wonderfull on my desktop computer, which is also running XP, then I finally got a hold of a boto disk for windows so I could just reformat all the crap on my laptop and put windows back on. Now the external harddrive does not work. Windows makes that little sound to say that it registers that the thing is plugged in. windows shows it in the device manager. but I can not access it in windows explorer/my computer. frustrating, no? anyway i have figured out my last hope is to possibly reformat the drive, can any one think of a way to pull the stuff off of it before I do this, or should I just reformat it and hope that it works again?