- #FORMAT WD EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FOR MAC AND PC WITH EASEUS MOVIE#
- #FORMAT WD EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FOR MAC AND PC WITH EASEUS DRIVER#
What you need to do now is have Windows recognize your drive.
#FORMAT WD EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FOR MAC AND PC WITH EASEUS DRIVER#
(FOUR) USB Driver Issue Or Waiting On A Slow Read: Sometimes Fix It seemed to work, other times I wanted to shoot someone from Microsoft for making a service so **bleep** ambiguous with giving results.
Someone in a forum recommended running the free online “ Windows Fix it” tool: (No Microsoft service is compatible with rival browsers, so you have to use Internet Explorer, no Firefox.) It’s important to keep your system up to date, so make sure you run Windows Update. Then download, install, track down and remove the bug, and turn my “ Windows Security Center” shields back up or on. The virus wouldn’t allow me to do this so I had to run my computer in “ Safe Mode” and use “ System Restore” to reset my computer to a earlier saved state. For me I had to download a program to get rid of the virus. a virus, power outage at a critical point, or Vista’s poor design temping you to turn off your computer’s protection, you just might be in luck.įix what ever issue that caused the problem. If it’s water, fire, or damage due to a baseball bat, well you can kiss your drive goodbye, but if the damage is non-physical i.e.
#FORMAT WD EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FOR MAC AND PC WITH EASEUS MOVIE#
So, during those times your computer is working RELAX, watch a movie play a game go outside do something positive to pass the time.ĭecide what type of damage your drive sustained. HAVE PATIENCE! It took me two weeks to get my stuff back, 5 of those last days was using a recovery program (twice) to painstakingly step through the drive to get all 520 GB of it, and that was just one drive. I’m unfortunately using Windows Vista on top of everything, so when I got the hair pulling “ Unrecognized USB Device” error message I still wasn’t aware that the drives had a problem.ĭepending on how resourceful ) you are you may be able to fix your drive without too great of a cost. Well, I caught a virus, but I didn’t expect it to effect my external HDs. I use both drives to watch TV Shows and Movies either through my PS3 on the big TV or on my computer. I bought two drives this past Black Friday via Wal*Mart. Okay, I had the same problem with my WD External USB Terabyte drives, but managed to get through it.