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Anonymous Posted on Nov 21, 2013

Wd external hard drive not recognized - Western Digital External USB 2.0 80 GB Hard Drive

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Nov 26, 2008

SOURCE: Flashing light on WD 500GB External Harddrive

This may sound silly,but sometimes if you put the drive in the freezer overnight it will work long enough for you to retrieve your data.Make sure you are ready to copy the data to another as it will likely fail again once it warms up.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 08, 2009

SOURCE: My I Mac doesn't recognize the WD 500GB external drive anymore

it must be initialised /mounted 1st for osx

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Apr 18, 2009

SOURCE: WD 500g hard drive computer cant read it

Is your hard drive power-up?
Do you hear your hard drive just spinning?

If so, your PCB may went bad. If you hear the hard drive clicking then your PCB or the heads went bad. If you need the data, you might have to ask the data recovery guys to get them back for you or find the PCB on Ebay.

If you don't care about your data, send it back for the warranty replacement

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danny

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  • Posted on Jun 01, 2009

SOURCE: Flashing blue light on external WD hard drive & not recognised

sounds like you are using the wrong power supply. Check the amp output on the power plug you plug into the wall make sure its the same as the amp input of your external harddrive

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Pedro Jesus

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  • Posted on Jun 24, 2009

SOURCE: WD External Drive-USB recognize, but no icon, can't access

1. Right click on My Computer > Manage;

2. On the new window click on Disk Management, on the right side, right click in the USB Volume and chose "Change Drive Letter and Path..."

3. In the new window click on "Add..." to assign a letter to your USb drive.

Best Regards

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