Have read FAQ re: My Computer not locating external WD drive.
Previously never installed device. The USB port broke and the device was transferred to another case. When I plugged it in, it automatically installed recently and is now no longer working properly. WDC WD10 EADS-11M2B2 USB Device is showing up under Hardware as working properly and in the Device Manager under disk drives. However, “Other devices: SM Bus Controller” is appearing as a yellow question mark.
Is there a way to update the driver(s)? I downloaded and unzipped WDDriver Utilities and WD_SES but nothing is being picked up by the device.
One thing I was reading about - data encryption. Was I a victim of WD’s overprotective encryption and is my data now being held hostage until I pay $200+ for their “Data Recovery” friends to remove the encryption???