WD External Passpor Not Working!!

Pembily

Hi all, there may be a thread here on this already but I can't find it and am on the computer using ANSYS since 8am so can't really see anymore!!

I have a WD harddrive (ALL MY MUSIC IS ON IT - CAN'T LOOSE IT)- working fully yesterday!!! I tried to do a back up again, hadn't done one since I changed to windows 7, so it told me to back up I needed to create a system image, to do this I first had to scan my harddrive, so I scanned and fixed it, it ran overnight, took ages!!!!

Then this morning I tried to create the system image but the drive was no longer recognised It is making a noise when I plug it in and can be seen in Device Manager, in device manager it is saying to not initalised, it says I need to initalise it before Logical Disk Manager can access it, when I try to initalise it by either MBR (Master Boot Record) of GPT (GUID Partition Table) it says incorrect function!!! I have tried to convert it over (as not formatting it) but can't do that as the drive is not being recognised at all :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::(:(:(:(

Oh yeah side note - not sure of relevance but anyway - as and from the same time my utorrent has suddenly uninstalled and wont reinstall, not sure if it is linked but I can't use it or get it to work, but that is not important but thought it might be relevant!!!

Thanks

As I said it is the only place I have all my music - yes I have just learned my lesson!!!! My thesis is not on it at least..


Please help, a very stressed final year student!!!!

mordeith

Have you used the HD on windows 7 before or is this the first time? The reason I ask is that I have a WD external that works fine on my XP machine but isn't recognised on my Vista laptop. Might be a similar issue when trying to access it on a Windows 7 machine

Pembily

mordeith wrote: »

Have you used the HD on windows 7 before or is this the first time? The reason I ask is that I have a WD external that works fine on my XP machine but isn't recognised on my Vista laptop. Might be a similar issue when trying to access it on a Windows 7 machine

That is what I am thinking - it worked sound but it wasn't backing up!!! It told me what to do and NOW it's not working - fecking Microsoft!!

Thanks

Pembily

Hi all quick question - does anyone know how to name / put a letter allocation on it using Windows 7?

Thanks

Mr. Fancypants

You can allocate a letter by right clicking my computer going to manage then Disk Management Under Storage. Right click on the drive and assign letter.
One thing i would suggest you double check with the drive is plugging it into another usb port prefereably one at the back of the computer, those WD Passports need a bit more power than some usb ports can give.

tman

Pembily wrote: »

Hi all quick question - does anyone know how to name / put a letter allocation on it using Windows 7?

Thanks

Click on the start or and then right click on the computer icon and go to manage, then go to disk management. If you right click on the drive there you should be able to change the drive letter.
To change the name, just go into my computer, right click and rename.

Pembily

When I right click in disk manager the only options I get are
- Offline
- Properties
- Help

The disk is not initalised - help please - really need to try get the info off the disk!!!

MunsterCycling

Right Click it in the upper section of the right hand window pane

Pembily

MunsterCycling wrote: »

Right Click it in the upper section of the right hand window pane

It's not showing up in that section!!!!