It does appear after using the my book drive for over a week now that it is in a powered down state when the led is flashing slowly. Product title wd 8tb my book desktop external hard drive usb 3. If your sure about your configuration and the router sees the drive correctly, you should reset the winsock on your pc. If i manually turn on the drive its powered a few seconds before powering on the wii, usbgx autostarts ok, as well as when coming back as an exit to on games, or returning from shutdown to standby. Western digital my book live user manual pdf download. Therefore, i cant access it in anyway to try to configure it i tried holding down the reset button with no results.
My book causes computer to freeze up external hardware. Im trying to make my external hard drive use some sort of sleep mode. Like the earlier question i have a 1tb western digital my book hard drive and when i plug it in to the usb port the computer detects and the instillation wizard pops up saying that it has been successfully installed but i cannot find my hard drive. Just a short video to show that my wd my cloud does go into hdd standby mode. The drive is a quite old wd my book home, originally 500gb, now with a 1. Last night however i noticed that after i turned my xbox off in standby mode the external drive was still on, based on the indicated light not doing its standby blinking sequence as well as hearing the drive spin up and down. And if i click on it, tells me the perimeter is incorrect so cannot access to the wd my book 2. Noting that every time the mbp sleeps it also puts the wd drive into sleep mode and ejects it. There is an option to either enable or disable power saving mode, which spins down the drive when not in use. My book stuck on yellow light my book live wd community. Follow this tutorial to find out how to enable sleep mode on your mybooklive and save energy and your money in same time.
Western digital my book mini usb port replacement some of the newer enclosures are not fully mac compatible, like the seagate expansion enclosure, so make sure it will work with mac before buying. After publishing our howto guide on saving money with the toshiba 5tb 7200rpm external drives, we. The drive is not powering up western digital my book. Tutorial how to enable sleep mode on wd mybooklive the. Last night however i noticed that after i turned my xbox off in standby mode the external drive was still on, based on the indicated light not doing its standby blinking sequence as. I posted earlier having network connectivity issues, not my wd my cloud drive is stuck in standby mode. Page 126 western digital, wd, the wd logo, my book, my passport. Windows10 unable to recognise external usb hdd wd my book 4tb however, im able to see all files from a linux machine i have on same hdd. My book live wont go into standby mode wd community. I got a my book 1140 2tb, when i connect it to my computer also tried on 2 other laptops, 1. Wd external hard drive wont safely remove or eject from. My book duo desktop raid storage user manual western digital. I dont like to let them turn at full speed all day long for nothing. Wd my book external drive not working posted in external hardware.
Launching wd smartware windows only if wd smartware is installed, select the wd smartware option on the wd quick view menu to display the wd smartware home screen. My book drive, with the wd backup, wd drive utilities, and wd security software. However, i see the backup file when i open the wd book live drive. My book world edition white unbrick guide hacking wd. Western digital my book problem question and answer dti data. The presence of the additional partion not removeable as per wdc optionally mounted as a virtual cd, holding optional software like the wd sds permitting some other wdc software tp establish a special communications channel scsi between the pc and the hard drive to enable certain features such as password protection, led control, and access to the drives label if applicable. Wd greenpower technology lowers internal drive power consumption by up to 30%. Are there any other wd my book owners out there who have had similar problems. I have a 500 gig western digital mybook external drive. This worked well at first, but is currently stuck in standby mode, refusing to wake for. Its connected to my sky q router, via an ethernet cable i. Ive switched off my laptop and the only thing the my book is connected to is my router, so it should go to sleep, but it has had a green light on it all day, which blinks now and again. Wd my passport ultra 1tb in standby light blinking mode youtube. I bought a western digital my book pro edition ii external hard drive recently.
When accessing the drive while in standby it takes about 20 seconds before it responds, probably because it has to power up. List of all wd firmware and software available for download. Click the wd quick view icon in the menu bar and move the cursor over the name of your my book live drive to display drive status below the submenu. When i turn off my xbone i shut it off fully, the power save setting or whatever. Appears listed on the hard drive, but does not load. Help me get my data off a wd mybook techspot forums.
Wd my book external drive not working external hardware. The quick fix for this is to turn off and unplug the mybook, and then give it a few sharp taps around the power button to dislodge it. The my book duo device, along with the following software. Read speeds up to 2000mbs to decrease load times and get you into the game faster. Some western digital mybook chassies have a problem with the power button getting stuck. Standby modus deaktivieren externe laufwerke wd community. Besides the my book live, wd offers my book live duo mb live duo product line. My book world edition white unbrick guide started by. Cant access it anymore via the dashboard or the desktop appi updated it to the latest firmware and now seem to be having all these issues. I get the warning that the drive was not ejected properly. R9000 readyshare does not recognize wd mybook netgear.
Unfortunately, this wasnt an obvious process and this excellent article by scott cramer didnt apply to the newer version 1 tb drive enclosure i have. In addition to the basic features of the nas, mb live also has some other notable features. The blue light means that the device is in standby mode. The duo also supports raid used to speed up data access or security for data.
If i do a simple computer restart instead of a full shut down the computer does not show the hard drive. Western digital my book opening the case removing the drive i recently needed to removed the drive from a western digital my book external usbesata drive enclosure. Wd 4tb my passport for mac portable external hard drive. Western digital mybook open case recover data scott cramer. The my book live lineup consists of 1 tb, 2 tb and 3 tb western digital hard disks in an external enclosure. Please select the product for reset instructions wd support. Once this has been done, plug it back in and start it up. My book live duo has two hard drive slots, with capacities starting at 4 tb. I again standby my opinion that dlna only serves to heighten consumers frustration. Mybook, recover my data, and return it to western digital as pristine. Restoring backup file from wd live book microsoft community. Im starting to get the distinct feeling that i should have stuck with seagate. Usb loader gx stuck at init usb device when booting 2nd time. It always says that it is being used by another program.
You see, many western digital mycloud nas drives have a. Hi yesterday my book live stopped working for no reason it just stays stuck with the yellow light and makes a sound like if trying to read something, but doesnt got to standby mode green light. Wont it cause things like registry errors and the like. My book causes computer to freeze up posted in external hardware.
How to enable disable sleep on wd my cloud youtube. Only top led is blinkingflashing and mbwe doesnt appear in my network environment. Western digital has tried to address these two concerns with the my book live lineup. Any thoughts on why i cant wake it up out of standby all i get is the slow pulsing blue lightit does seem a slower pulse of blue than. If you have used the power button to turn the drive off and on this. Western digital my book 500 gb hard drive not starting up super. We can setup this device to be our web server at home. I have found a solution to this problem with windows vista version, and 320 gb wd. A link will be made available in the wd community discussions. When i plug it in to either the usb or firewire ports the computer detects and the instillation wizard pops up. Windows10 unable to recognise external usb hdd wd my. Hello, i backed up my desktop drives on a western digital essential book protected with pw, i had an issue on my desktop and recovered it, after that i am not able to reach my wd external drive, as i can not enter the correct password the pw has more character than max allowed, andor i. The lights blinking because your drive has power and has entered its own standby mode.
The drive should remain on while my computer is in use, and when my machine goes in sleep mode at. I am really stuck here and i need to restore my backup, can someone please help resolve this problem. Drive sleep if this function is enabled, the hard drive goes into standby mode to save power after a designated period of inactivity. When using usb the drive also wont go into standby mode after a predetermined period of inactivity. Western digital mybook hard drive shutting down periodically. Western digital my cloud devices have a hardcoded backdoor. It just stays stuck with the yellow light and makes a sound like if trying to read something, but doesnt got to standby mode green light. First off i should mention that my computer has a p4 2. I dont want to lose my content on the external hdd by reformatting etc. I like to activate sleep on them when im not using it. Follow this section 1 if you havent upgrade the firmware and you dont want to use debian squeeze.
The icon for the drive disappears from the desktop and time machine cannot see it. Restoring backup file from wd live book i backed up my windows 10 computer to a wd book live drive. But i cant get it to go into standby mode blue light. You will note that my passport is either inactivated or disappeared by now. Downloads download software and updates for your wd product at. Western digital my book opening the case removing the. My old seagate freeagent usb drive worked reliably and has never given me a problem. Led after shutdown external drives for pc wd community. Type cmd in search, rightclick cmd in the results and run as administrator. I bought brand new wd caviar green hard disks and put them into my book world edition ii white light case but surprisingly it doesnt work or even start. Western digital my book problem question and answer dti. It works quite well and provides a webbased administration interface. I read somewhere that as long as it isnt transferring files, it is ok to remove the usb chord. Im using a 1tb wd my passport ultra for my time machine backup drive.
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