I bought this drive of off ebay ( model # wd50000h1cs-00) Came with power adaptor. I plugged it in, white bar lights up on front of unit. Plugged in USB cable to my Windows 7 machine, and the OS is not picking up the drive. Then tried on another PC, same issue. I see there is some sort of power button(?) on the back, but does not appear to do anything. Any clues?
If this is a drive that has Smartware I think the button only works if it is installed. Look in Disk Management and see if the drive is shown there it may just need a letter assigned to it.
OK, I downloaded the drive manager, and I see it found USB drivers. However, I still don’t see the drive. This was originally formated for a Mac. How do I re-format the drive to work in WIndows? All the driver manager software did is show a status icon on the task bar. Is there some other software I need to download?