Quoting John Coyle <jco...@iinet.net.au>:
My Maxtor also played up last month, and I too bought a WD MyBook
replacement!
Fortunately, I don't use any backup software that was mangled by the
WD software, so the
transfer of data was only painful in that about 10% of the image
files were showing bad
reads: I used the old DOS command XCOPY to do the transfer, worked
very well in the
background. I was also lucky (or well enough organised!) to have a
second copy of the
image files so that I was able to replace those that showed bad
reads - nothing lost in
the long run.
The only issue I have now is that another external HDD now gets lost
from My Computer
occasionally and has to be remounted every now and then - possibly
the firmware in the
MyBook is interfering with it, but it's no biggy.
That's started to happen with my 1.5 TB WD external drive. My laptop
won't allocate it a drive letter on boot and I have to go into 'Disk
Management' to allocate a drive letter manually every time I need to
use it.
Not sure if its an OS issue (Vista) or a problem with the drive.
I've noticed that the older of my two WD MyBook's takes a long time to
start up. I've learned not to be in a hurry.
It takes 5 - 10 minutes sometimes before it will finally appear in My
Computer under XP and Vista. But it has, so far, eventually showed up.
I think the power supply problems are in the plug-in transformers
supplied with the drive.
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