My WD Elements wd10000eb035 was working fine. But then I connected it to my laptop (windows 7) and for some odd reason it said installing drivers, when the drivers were already installed. I left it installing just in case for about 5 minutes. Thinking it was a problem, I disconnected the USB cord, and the driver install said "ready to use". Now whenever I connect my Hard drive, it won't show on my computer, although it appears in Device Manager as WD. When I plug in power, it spins 3 times, then stops. When it stops, my cpmputer makes a sound like it detected the drive. Help?

Arora Singh

• 180 Answers
• Posted on Jul 29, 2008

SOURCE: Appears on Device Manager but not on My Computer

you can still use partition table disk doctor to restore your old partitons and the dat a will be seen back automatically like magic..

SOURCE: external hard disk installation

HI,


does your hard disk require also a USB power cord? maybe it was not included in the original package but you need it.

Riccardo

SOURCE: win98se i did it ... HERE'S HOW

OK, I bought this Western Digital MyBook 500 GB Essential Edition too, and could not get it to work with Windows 98 SE.

I followed the above instructions, but my version of windows was missing even the drivers suggested above! UGH!

HOWEVER, I found ANOTHER SOLUTION. I installed USB 2.0 drivers for mass storage and the the MY BOOK icon popped up on my Windows 98 SE machine. Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!

Here are the drivers from this british webpage:
http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/win98se-usb-mass-storage-drivers.php

Good luck to all you frustrated folks scooping your info off Windows 98 machines!

SOURCE: External Hard Dive suddenly not detected

Hello,

From what I can deduce here, it seems that you the hard drive probably has a bad sector on it.

That clicking sound that you are hearing from the Hard Drive is coming from the read/write head inside the hard drive.

In this case, what I would advise you to do is, unscrew the hard drive case and remove the Hard disk from the case, connect it directly to a system, not externally or through USB this time around, then get a software called NTFS DOS Professional. It is a software that works like magic when it comes to hard drive repairs.

If you know any other hard drive utility, apart from this, you can also use it. I just recommend this personally because that is what I use.

Insert it into your PC, start up your CD-ROM and let your system boot from CD-ROM.

It works through DOS, and it should be able to help you with it.

If this does not solve the problem, then I'm afraid you might need to replace the hard drive.

And if it repairs it, I would suggest that you just retrieve all your valuable files from it and don't fully rely on the hard drive again because of the hardware error it has developed. Just keep using it as a second.

If you cannot do this by yourself, just get a very good technician to do it for you instead.

Kindly keep me posted about the problem.

Hope it helps.

Goodluck.

SOURCE: wd elements 1tb hdd write protected help

the volume of the partiton is corrupted, u need to use winpe mini cd or hirens boot disk to realocate partitions and fix the volume with active partiton recovery programe.
or an alternative way, use a linux live cd, mount the drive and copy the needed files to your primary hard disk, then go back to windows and accept the format, than recopy the files