I have a problem with My Book Essential 2TB. I bought it in August of 2012 and used it as backup for my home PC. My computer recently had to be reformatted because of a Windows software issue, and when I plugged the MyBook back in, it comes up as a drive, but only has a folder labeled WD Smartware.s…

My Book Essential problem

Joe_S December 30, 2012, 4:13pm 2

Did you try checking show hidden files? Sometimes you need to do another backup see this post http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-for-PC/data-restore/m-p/161586/highlight/true#M5703

Joe

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