Hy there everyone!
I would like to ask for your help, I’m in deep panic here.
TLDR version: after using my 1TB hard drive on a XP os old laptop, my (usually used) Win7 os notebook can’t see my files on it - It recognizes the hard drive, but it does not access the files. On the old laptop everything is fine. What happened? Drivers are up to date.
Here’s what happened:
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I have a My Book Essential 1TB, what I use for storage (Movies, Documents etc.).
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Until now it worked perfectly.
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I use it almost always with my Asus K50IN notebook - it’s old, but works perfectly, and every software is up to date (especially the drivers). OS: Windows7
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I had a task, to extract data from an other notbook, a considerably older DELL Latitude D510. OS: WinXP. Due to the fact, that the amount of the data was significant (30GB) I used my WD_MyBook.
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Data extracted, no problem, DELL XP recognizes and utilizes 1TB.
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I connect the 1TB to Asus (Win7), and this happens:
-It recognizes the device, autorun, and at MyComputer it is shown, I can accsess it, YET when I enter the “My Book” hard drive, it says that it is Empty! And it shows none of my files.
-When I check properties: it says that it has as much data on it, as it should.
-I reconnect the 1TB with the Old DELL laptop, and there I CAN access everything.
- I immiadiatly assumed, that the driver went nuts (Win7->XP->Win7), so i try to update it. It does not work. Win7 says, that the driver for the MyBook is prefectly updated, and I have the latest version.
Am I this incompetent, or something is really wrong? I would really appreciate any form of help…
Thank you,
Treveljan