Bought a 2T WD external drive about a year ago, have had some conflicts with it but it has always worked. Just setup a new HD and now it recognizes as drive F: instead of E: and I cant read any of my files. I assume its a USB driver issue. Where can I get better drivers?
Another thing I am annoyed about is that it goes into sleep mode and I cant get it to wake up. I have to turn it off and then back on again and I have to hold the button down a long time to get it to turn off and sometimes have to click it a few times to get it to go back on.:banghead:
Its not seeing a driver. Where do I get the correct one? I believe I had the USB2.0 drivers installed on my other drive. I dont think they have been installed on this one. This drive also runs on 3.0
USB drives use generic drivers supplied by Windows. When the drive is connected, it should be detected, Windows will install the drivers needed for access, and the drive is then listed in Drive Manager.
If the drive is not properly recognized and listed in Drive Manager, there is likely a hardware issue (faulty cable or drive).
I downloaded a driver from WD and the driver issue is resolved on the device manager list but I found the problem. All my files are hidden. I just setup a new HD because my other INTERNAL has a virus, I am waiting for one of the virus people to help me remove that. The virus hid all my files on C:\ Did that carry over to this drive?
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