I plug my external harddrive into my computer and my computer recognizes that something has been connected and under devices it shows up as My Book 1140 but when I go to my computer there is nothing. Nothing shows up so I can not get into my files, I don’t know if they even still exist on my harddrive! It normally shows up as F drive, but nothing comes up. The drive is also making a weird clicking/whiring sound, though I did not drop it or anything… Could I have had a power surge while I was sleeping and it messed the drive up?
So, any ideas on how to get access to my drive gain?
I have the same issue. I updated the firmware, then my laptop couldn’t recognize the drive. In drive management, there is no letter associated with the WD drive, and I am unable to assign one.
The first time I updated the firmware I used the firmware version that came as part of the software that was installed on the hard drive.
After having problems with that firmware upgrade I went to their online site and tried their Universal Firmware Updater and tried that. It seems to be the same version number that I had already installed but my Hard Drive has since been recognized and everything works fine.
