I think I am in a similar situation. Our old computer crashed but we have the WD drive. Our new system has Windows 7. I can connect the WD but when it connects itself it skips steps like the WD Sysexe (something like that) even though it says it has installed ok. When I find my file folders,almost all of them are empty. We had hundreds of photos and our tax info for 5 years on there!!! Please HELP!!!