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May 30, 2007 at 02:00 AM
effiem

WD External HDD Problem

by effiem . Updated 19 years, 1 month ago

Hi,
I have a WD external 2.5″ HDD FAT32 (160GB), and I’ve been experiencing the following problems.
First of all, I’ve been connecting this to both a MacBook (MacOSX 10.4) and a PC (Windows XP Prof). Sometimes when moving data to the disk from the PC, I was getting the following message: “cannot copy filename, sector not found). Then a couple of days ago, I was connecting it to my PC, and even though the device was recognised (WD external mass storage device found), the PC was not assigning it a drive letter. I went to disk manager, and it was not at all visible.
I’ve connected the HDD to a USB directly connected to the motherboard, and the light on the casing is on.
Has anyone seen this problem before? I would appreciate any help
(P.S I rang WD and they told me that they can replace the disk, but I lose my data. I would really like to avoid this). Thanks.

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