Western Digital
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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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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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Originally posted by ZootedLooter
...my emf...

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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.

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

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

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