I have 5 external drives ranging from 1.5TB Elements desktops to 3TB MyBook Essential. One of the drives as above the 2TB was successfully working as a 4 partitioned drive for 6 months when I then went on 2 month holiday leaving it lonely in a cupboard. On return and trying to access it found that…

Hello Mate, This seems to be drive corruption…Since you backup your data your cool. What you need to do now is get in touch with WD and replace your drive…

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My Book Essential 2Tb (1130) ... Where is the data ... Where are the partitions?

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Joe_S May 15, 2012, 1:35am 4

It sounds like there may be a problem in the USB port or the solder connecting it to the circuit board.

Joe