I have been using WD products for quite some time and my OS was XP. So basically everything was fine. Now i upraded my machine and the OS is Windows 7. I connected my external WD Home Edition 1TB and double clicked the setup file to install the necessary software for WD to work correctly. So the window of the installation pops up like it should and the funny thing is that you have to agree to the licence agreement to proceed. There are these two buttons , usually âacceptâ and âdeclineâ. But this time the buttons were without NAMES!!! I remembered that the left one is the âacceptâ button , so i clicked it and the next window showed available stuff to install with out any names too! I closed the window because i donât know which are the ones i need.
So basically my question is , what is it? I mean , is this something about Windows 7? Maybe the setup file was meant for Vista and older Microsoft products? Is there a way to get a newer one? Itâs funny because i canât properly turn off my hard drive because the turn off button only works with the software. Please help me out.
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OhhâŠwait. Now the drive is acting really weird. Like when i copy something from the external to my internal , usually it works fine , but sometimes it just stops. Sometimes it disconnects itself. Sometimes i canât copy stuff to my external. Where are these problems coming from? Now iâm thinking that i should format it and make it NTFS! Any ideas?
Hello I just got a WD external HD and when I connected it to the PC windows has detected a new hardware and went looking for drivers but didnât find anything. So my question is where I can find drivers for it? Iâm not sure what kind the HD is but Iâm sure itâs not passport or legacy or elements.
Easy One , If your Drive Comes with The WD Smartware you Can Find the Wd Ses Drivers Inside
of the WD Smartware Virtual Cd under the Extras Folder âŠ
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Hey hey. So after spending some time to figure out whatâs the problem with my hdd , i got it. The trouble maker was called : Power Options. The default was set to âBalancedâ. I changed it to âHigh Performanceâ and everything went back to normal , only after 20-30 minutes of using it , it stuck! I went to check the Power Options and found that hard drives turn off after 20 minutes. So i set that to never and now everything works perfect! I hope this thread wonât get deleted because i believe that there will be more people who will end up with the same problem. And i hope that it will help someone tooâŠ
I am having a very similar problem except with 2 My Passport Elite Drives. When I click on the setup icon I get the acceptance window for the WD License Agreement, but just like above, there is no text on the buttons. Clicking on the left button brings me to the next screen which behaves even more erratically.Â
I have tried downloading the newest Drive Manager and still get the same behavior, and I have Flash, Java, and using WIndows 7 English.Â
When I try to install Passport on my computer with Microsoft 7 operating system, I just get a blank when I should press âaccept.â Then I just get a âCatch 22â situation where it keeps returning to the starting point.
Now iâm thinking that i should format it and make it NTFS! Any ideas?