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Posted by ZootedLooter on 10-25-2007 02:02 AM:

while im at it

Western Digital
My Book Essential/Premium Edition
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cocksuckers......my emf disabled the driver somehow and now it wont replug and play...device is unrecognised and drivers cannot be auto found....western digitals website does not offer a driver download because

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This USB external hard drive is "plug-and-play" in Windows ME, 2000, or XP, and no additional drivers are needed.

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Posted by MrEMann on 10-25-2007 06:58 AM:

Have you tried it on another machine? The drive shouldn't require any other driver, and either you donged your windows, or the drive has donged.

There is a tool from MS that repairs the auto run of the drive, but if it isn't showing up in My Computer, then you have either a windows issue or a drive issue (WD has a notorius failure rate in their case electronics).

Time for another drink.

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Posted by LOLobo on 10-25-2007 07:05 AM:

Re: while im at it

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Originally posted by ZootedLooter
...my emf...

[e]motional [m]ale [f]riend

Posted by stickywicket on 10-25-2007 08:30 PM:

I had the same problem Mr Looter.

I searched the house top to bottom but couldn't find the driver disc that i was 'sure' came with it..

Then, two days later i re-plugged it back in and it was instantly recognised.

Morale of the story - WD is shit.

Posted by Jay Are on 11-02-2007 09:53 AM:

so im assuming you already "scanned for hardware changes" and it did nothing...

in that case, you can trick it into seeing the drive; first, connect it to a dif usb port and disable that port in the device manager. then enable the port. ive done that before and it worked.

they're right - wd does indeed blow goat nuts.

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Posted by danimal39 on 11-02-2007 10:09 AM:

Also might try a different cord, I like the Seagate's or Hitachi's for drives.

Posted by Jay Are on 11-03-2007 06:47 AM:

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Originally posted by danimal39
Also might try a different cord, I like the Seagate's or Hitachi's for drives.

good idea. a step further would be to remove the HDD from its external case and just install it internally. wouldn't be portable (at least not easily portable), but it would let you use the drive.

if you still can't get it to work, send it to me and i'll use it.

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