MyBookWorld Connections Fails and solid blue rings

WD Legacy Products Other Network Drives
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Hi

I’m hoping someone has a bright idea or has seen this before. I have a 500Gb MyBookWorld device, it’s been great for a few years. I was considering expanding with an external disk however the device stopped working (before anything was attached to it I hasten to add). It will start up and just have the two blue rings solid. I can ping the device on the network and not make a connection whether through a network dirve or a browser. I can hear the disk spinning.

Any ideas? 

I have reset the device and tried a restart however the old MioNet software doesn’t work on Windows 7 so don’t use it.

Yours desperate. Need to recover some data. 

Thanks. 

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Try connecting the ethernet cable directly to the PC and then try to map it manually.

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Hi 

Thanks. Forgot to say that I tried that. The PC doesn’t see the device, although I can ping it through the static IP it has on the netwrok. Any other thought? Thanks

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I’ve had something similar happen although in my case I could access the data for a short time but then the drive would overheat.  Symptoms similar to yours - blue rings alight but nothing working.

I managed to recover the data by opening the case and directing the air flow from an electric fan over the drive to keep it cool while I copied the files.  It may not work for you, but it’s worth a try.