20 Most Recent Western Digital Elements powered by WD 320 GB External USB (WDE1U3200N) Hard Drive - Page 3 Questions & Answers

Right-click on "My Computer" Click "Manage" Double-click "Disk Management" You will probably see Disk 0 and Disk 1 for your primary hard drive. Go to lower right portion of box and scroll down until you see Disk 2. It is probably your USB drive without a letter. It should show the size of the drive. Right-click in the left portion of that drive box (Disk 2) Click "Initialize" and "OK" in the next dialog box. This takes just a few seconds and it should now say "Online" in the "Disk 2" box. Right-click in the box to the right side of the "Disk 2" box (where it shows your disk drive size and says "Unallocated". Click "New Partition" and a "New Partition Wizard" will open up. Click "Next", then select "Primary Partition" and click "Next". Verify partition size (use entire disk size available unless you are creating multiple drives) and Click "Next". Assign drive letter ("F" is typical if CD-Rom is E) and click "Next". Format this partition with "NTFS", "Default", "New Volume" and click "Next". Then click "Finish" to exit the wizard and start formatting. Be patient... this can take awhile (it took just over an hour for a 320GB drive). When done, you should see an icon for your drive in Windows Explorer! hope this helps

The drive would have to be formatted in order for the mac to use it. Then you'd lose all your photos. The drive can either work on the PC or work on the Mac. They are two different animals.

try to connect ur drive at the back usb port of your PC..

First thing, try to change the cable, try a different one, then if it does not work, try to connect the hard drive on another computer, and changing cables as well. This will help you to narrow down the problem to find out exactly what the matter is. If the Hard drive spins properly and it does not produce any click-click sound then it is fine. If all the above fail, then you have to slave the hard drive using its internal SATA connection. You have to open up the hard drive and remove the pin that connects the hard drive to the cable. This will enable you to see the SATA connection. Slave the Hard drive on a desktop computer and see if you can gain access to it. If you can, then consider replacing both the cable and the pin that connects the cable to the hard drive. If your hard drive just spins and you can not access it while its a slave to another computer, then the hard drive has a problem.... Try the methods above, i believe your hard drive did not go this bad...

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The most likely reason you cannot see your hard drive on your Windows computer but can on your Mac, is that the drive has been formatted for GPT which is only supported on Windows Vista or 7 or above, not on XP. See the Microsoft article on GPT here and FAQ's on GPT here

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You can pick up a manual from http://support.wdc.com/product/install.asp?level1=3&lang=en Hope this helps.

I had that prob ages ago. I fixed by doing a quick format. By quick formatting your drive is not wiped. Once quick formatted do not put anything on the drive and run software recovery software of some sort. It is very likely you will have to purchase that software unfortunately.There may be other courses of action, this one did work for me though. Do remember if you do this that if your drive contained 320g of data you will need 320g of space free elsewhere to recover to.

make sure the lead/s that attach to your hard drive are securely seated if your computer came with a motherboard disc the drivers could be on it click start control panel administrive tools ,computer management ,device manager look through all of your devices if you see a yellow question mark?or exclamation mark ! or red x right click to reinstall drivers or if you can see your usb but its not working ports(com&lpt)right click update driver hope this helps

click start control panel administrive tools ,computer management ,device manager look through all of your devices if you see a yellow question mark?or exclamation mark ! or red xright click to reinstall drivers or

if you can see your usb but its not workingports(com&lpt)right click update driver

sometimes the wires inside the cable will be damaged due to bending or stretching or placing heavy equipment upon the cable,

just replace the cable of the hard disk, when you plugged the external disk drive you got that windows could recognize the USB device change the cable everything should work fine again,

check the USB leads that attach to the motherboard usually red-white-green-black make sure they are securely seated and have no dust build up on them dust will cause static and a lot of unforeseen problems

if this fails to fix the problem

you might have to install a usb 2 or 3 card they are cheap and easy to install you can buy these on Ebay very cheap hope this helps you

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If you format it, yes, ever thing on it will be lost. You might be able to put it into another machine and copy some data. Typically the message indicates corrupt indexes.
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The erratic behavior you are reporting on your 320GB drive I expect is due to damage on the drive possibly bad sectors. You can check if there are problems with the drive using the free trial version of http://www.hdtune.com/

If it checks out ok then you can try to recover your data with Recuva it's free http://www.piriform.com/recuva

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Dear Jeffrey,

Here are some solutions to your problem:
-Try different USB ports.
-Try reinstalling your USB drivers.
-Try, after one of the above, a reboot.

I hope this was useful!
with kind regards,

MisterN

Unplug the power supply from the hard drive, leave for 15 seconds.

Plug power supply back in.

Try another USB cable if that does not work.

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The solution to this problem is to contact your nearest computer store. They may either order one for you or have one on hand.

Take care!
damnor01

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Hello, This external hard drive does not need a driver, even in XP. If you're using a desktop, don't connect it to the usb ports in front of your CPU case, instead, connect the usb at the back USB ports, if this doesn't work, try using a shorter USB cable and connect it again at the back.