Right … so here’s what’s going on. I have a WD 1TB external hard drive. It’s a My Book Essential. About a month or so ago, this thing stopped coming up whenever I unplugged it from my laptop and plugged it back in. The ONLY way the drive would come up again is after a restart of my laptop. Said laptop is a Sony Vaio, VGN-FZ140E
Turns out the thing is going into Standby whenever it gets unplugged - which is fine. But it used to come back up when it was plugged in again. And now it’s not. Until restart of the laptop. This is really quite annoying since I move the laptop around almost every day and don’t want to be forced to restart it every single time I need to do something with the My Book. Can anyone think of some way to get the drive to come up again without restarting? I’ve searched around on Google, etc and haven’t found anything on this problem D:
I have the most recent drivers for the My Book installed. I also have the latest WD Smartware installed