Huskyf1 wrote:
This is indeed one of the most worthless devices i have ever bought in my whole life.
The story that it is because it might have dropped is complete bull**bleep**.
I have another drive for 2 years now that has always travelled with me and never ever had any problems, this WD piece of garbage i heve for 10 days now and has not been dropped whatsoever, yesterday it was ok and since today not a single computer is recognising it !!!
On the website there are only software updates and no complete software, but if the piece of garbage is not recognised at all how the hell can just an update help me then ???
I have copied around 200 GB on it and then cleaned the original pc where the data came from now leaving me with all the data gone.
This is a very expensive lesson, never ever buy anything of this brand in my whole life again !!!
Okay, first of all, my intent was not to be a smartass. So, if I came off that way, I apologize. However, if you read the second to the last sentence of huskyf1’s post, he makes no mention of putting data back on the original pc, which means he no longer had a backup. he only had his data on one drive. Now, please understand that I’m still not being a smartass, but if I ever need to clean up my pc and then restore important data back to it, I never count on that data being put on just any one drive. I always back up my data to two drives, at least, before cleaning up my pc like that. So, yes, never own just one drive if you plan on commiting critical data to it. I own Seagate drives. I own WD drives. I own the original Maxtor drives. But I’ve never trusted my data to just any one of those drives. The more, the better. That, I had to learn the hard way.
Now, for helping. I don’t see anywhere where huskf1 is either asking for help or listing what the problem is. As a matter of fact, he’s still ranting about how worthless our drives are if he has to buy two of them. The original poster of this thread dropped their passport a good distance, and damaged it so it wouldn’t work. Do you honestly think they meant to? Of course not. For that reason, I make multiple backups on different drives. Anything can happen. Now if huskf1 would like to give us an idea of what’s happened to his drive - what he is or isn’t experiencing, and what he has or hasn’t done to troubleshoot it, I’d be more than happy to try and help figure out what may have happened.