The WD external hard drive is asking you to format and disables your drive data access? Have formatted this drive to restore its common use? Or have you rescued your desired drive files? If not, do not format this external drive and also move no new data to this drive. And then, plunge it to your PC and take chances with drive not formatted error recovery software to see whether these reserved drive files are still recoverable.
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The drive is not formatted do you want to format it...
The drive is not formatted do you...
To access the files off the hard drive another way - remove the hard drive from the case and connect it to an USB hard drive adapter and then plug it into a working computer's USB port. If the computer see the hard drive as an external hard drive/storage device and you can open the folders and files then backup your data. This also indicated the hard drive is OK and the Western Digital case/electronics is faulty.
To use this as an external USB hard drive, put the hard drive in an USB adapter case.
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Does the computer detects this as an external storage device? Does the MyBook work on other computers?
yes it is detected, just cant open the files. Have not tried it on another computer
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