I just bought a 160GB Western Digital MyBook hard drive. It says on that box that it is supposed to be plug-and-play but apparenly I can't play when it's plugged in. It doesn't appear under my computer. The drive it self seems to be working fine since the indicator LED on it is on and I can hear it running. However, when I attach the USB cable to the computer, it says that windows could not recognize the USB device. Any ideas on what I should do ?
P.S. I am running Windows XP.
2007-05-18 13:25:54 · 5 answers · asked by Kushan T 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
- Right click on My Computer and click Manage
- on left menu click Disk Management
- on the right highlight 'Unallocated disk space'
- right click and Format as NTFS
- Once formatting completes you will see the new disk drive in My Computer
2007-05-18 13:40:03 · answer #1 · answered by shamim316 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. I just installed a 250GB MyBook last week and it worked fine. Try leaving it hooked up to a USB 2.0 port and reboot.
2007-05-18 13:29:59 · answer #2 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reinstalling the USB port drivers, or updating them..
Hope this helps & good luck,
2007-05-18 13:31:04 · answer #3 · answered by ..::|QATAR|::.. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go on the WD website enter exactly what hard drive u got
then download the driver still dnt work contact WD
2007-05-18 13:29:28 · answer #4 · answered by Saad Imran 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The drive is not working right. Return it.
2007-05-18 13:30:26 · answer #5 · answered by CinderBlock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋