I have a WD 2500mep-00 0909a external drive, that I have used for years as a backup device. So tonight I pull it off the shelf, and hook it to my laptop, the light on the drive comes on but that is it, windows does not acknowledge that it has been plugged in. My laptop is a W7 x64, I have used this …

For a a start try a different USB cable and see if that helps. Joe

wd2500 not recognized

Acer_D February 7, 2013, 2:57pm 3

Sometimes it’s the simplist things that confound the wise. lol. Thanks that was the problem.