WD My Book White Light 1TB WD10000H1NC-00

[timcos]

Was working perfectly.

Last Monday evening…could not detect it.  Nothing found on the network.

Not in Disk Management, Windows Explorer, WD Link, Can see this thing for nothing.

I can turn it off, on, white light does its thing.  reset it with the reset button.  I can feel it spin up.

What the heck happened?

[Wizer]

try connecting direct to the pc’s ethernet port

try another cable… 

did you try to ping the drive already?

how are you connecting to it on windows explorer? 

[timcos]

I was connecting to it with the WD software that came with it.  Mapped it and it was always there when  booted up.

I did connect it to the ethernet port of the PC.  I did switch cables.

How do I ping it.?  I know of no IP address to ping.

Thanks for your continued help.

Tim

[Wizer]

cmd > ping mybookworld

[PIGuy]

I have exactly the same problem.  It starts up and the white light goes on and then it stops working.

[timcos]

Still struggling with this thing. 

[Wizer]

Connect the drive to the computer direct

open a web browser and type //mybookworld and see if it shows