There is a constant hum and clicking even when idle.
#WD MY BOOK TROUBLESHOOTING NOISES PRO#
It doesnt make the sound this newer one does. My Book Premium 500 GB: WDG1C5000E, WDG1C5000: Leaflet (English) My Book Pro Edition: WDG1T5000E, WDG1T2500E: Leaflet (English) Leaflet (English) My Book World Edition II 1.5TB: WDG2NC15000E: Leaflet (English) My Book World Edition 750GB: WDG1NC7500E: Leaflet (English) My Book2 Studio Edition 1TB: WDH1Q10000E: Leaflet (English) My Book 750GB. For more information you can check out Answer ID 15108. This is common for HDD suppliers as a preventive activity for reliability. Im fairly new and the last external hard drive I bought was a 2TB years ago. The noise you’re hearing is to be expected since the drive is working to prevent disturbances in the media lube caused by the prolonged dwelling of the media head at a single location.
#WD MY BOOK TROUBLESHOOTING NOISES DRIVER#
I tried to Find and Fix Problems in the control panel under Hardware and sound and when the troubleshooting was completed it said that the problem was found that HL-DT-ST DVDRWBD CA10N has a driver problem but it could not be fixed and that WD Virtual CD 1140 USB Device has a. Ive scanned the drive with the built in software, but no errors. Today I plugged it in again and it was not recognized by my computer.
I am an average user with average technical skills, and this one has me stumped. Someone else made a post here about the WD Easystore 8TB making odd noises. It could be that I got suckered on buying a defective drive, but a quick check on Google shows this is a very common problem with WD external drives and there are hundreds of suggested fixes. I tried that several more times with the same result. I tried downloading a driver from WD, but it will not install. I saw an earlier response that involves modifying the registry, but I am very hesitant to do that because of past registry problems on a different PC. I am running XP with SP3 on an older Dell Latitude D620. The drive does not show in the device manager or through My Computer. There is no USB device acknowledgement of new device found.
The light comes on and there are soft noises from within, but when I connect to my laptop, the drive is not recognized. I have a WD 1TB external hard drive, supposed new without documentation.
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