Green LED - But no access

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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My MBL is currently unaccessible. I have a solid green light but the drive isnt accessible from any of my PC’s and is not showing up on my network scanner.

I have tried different ethernet cables, direct connection to my laptop, rebooting and restarting the unit. It is running and I cant hear it but I can not access it at all.

My life is on that drive including photo’s that can never be replaced.

Can anyone help with this please?

Many Thanks.

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Most likely you have a network conflict between teh MBL and the router. 

  1. reset your MBL to factory configurations using the pinhole button on the back (read manual on how to do this)

2)at the same time,  in your router interface, clear the DHCP table assingments and then reboot your router

Hopefully the router will see the MBL, and assign it an IP address.  

  1. Go to your router interface and look at the DHCP table.  FInd the IP address of the MBL.
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If i reset it back to factory configurations will I lose all the data?

Thanks

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JamieD1984 wrote:

If i reset it back to factory configurations will I lose all the data?

 

Thanks

What does the owner’s manual say?