Mybook 1TB won't work

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MiniSoda wrote on 2010-06-29 02:45

My 1TB Western Digital Mybook won't work for some reason. I've had this for almost a year now, it stopped working this morning. It was working yesterday, I'm not sure what's going on with it but my computer won't detect the Mybook and the light on the Mybook keeps blinking, I've never seen this blink happened before.

I've dropped the Mybook last week, but it continued to work right after. Also, sometime after I dropped the Mybook, the power went off 3 times in a row in 1 night. And about 3 days ago, the power went off 1 time during the day. I'm not sure if the power going off would affect it.

I've tried restarting my laptop, unplugging the Mybook, the USB...

Also, the 3rd time I tried booting it again, the laptop detected it, but when I opened the Mybook, everything that I had in it was gone. I'm not sure if it was lagging or did everything I had just disappeared....

This morning when I turned on my laptop, I tried to open a program in my Mybook but it froze, so I had to open Task Manager and end the program from there, my laptop froze for about a minute.

So is there a way to fix this? Like get everything back from the Mybook? Because I have A LOT of stuff on here that I really don't want to lose. All my songs, pics and programs are on here, including games.

Is the problem the plug? USB plug? The Mybook or is it something else?

Help please x__x

Thanks in advance~!

Here's a picture of how my Mybook looks like:

[Image: http://www.maplin.co.uk/images/Full/a84ht.jpg]
EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-06-29 04:20

Usually, if a USB-based Harddrive is screwed, there isn't much you can do about it. I have quite a few harddrive just die on me throughout the years. It isn't really safe to put anything in harddrive if you want to keep them.

There was a saying that if something is really important to you, you should keep three copies.
MiniSoda wrote on 2010-06-29 06:36

Oh, I usually don't make copies of my files. But if I'm able to get my Mybook to work again, I'll probably make a copy of everything x_x

My laptop still doesn't detect the Mybook :S
Osayidan wrote on 2010-06-30 22:37

I had a similar problem with a WD external drive. It lasted me 6 months then just stopped working.
Avoid Seagate and WD at all costs, spend the extra buck on hitatchi or something.

As for the problem itself, the drive probably got corrupted or even damaged, that's what happened to mine. All it took was a power failure while it was active and it died. I had to open it up and insert the hard drive inside it into an external enclosure and get whatever I could off of it, that somehow worked but it isn't always a guarantee.

I would suggest Lacie for pre-built external drives, or buy an external enclosure of SATA->USB, and then buy some hitatchi hard drives to swap into it. That's what I do now. I have 2 enclosures and 5 hitatchi drives that I swap into them as needed.

I use this:
Buy the Sabrent EC-UEIS7 3.5 Hard Drive Enclosure at TigerDirect.ca
But there's lots of other good ones.