I have recently had to do a clean re-installation of Windows 7 on my laptop. Prior to this, my My Book Essential 2TB external drive worked exceptionally well. After the re-installation of the OS, I found it running quite slowly. I had only installed the driver for My Book that Windows 7 downloaded a…

FYI - if anyone else is having the same problem as I did, referring to this thread will probably help: http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-for-PC/Firmware-updater-has-been-running-for-1-hour/m-p/3706/highlight/true#M260 Once I realized it was only hung up, it didn’t really matter that the power we…

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den_of_ravens December 10, 2010, 6:32pm 2

I found the same issue - just a blank box the first time. I disabled antivirus and other items in COMODO. I then got the agreement and it proceeded to find my drive.