Have a Western Digital 2TB external Hard Disk that didn't use for a long time (6 months or so).
I wanted to look for some family photos and when connecting the disk, it starts normally, but the autorun does not start.

I tried using another computer but the problem is that the disk has a password and I can not remember it

I have a great collection of music and photos, so any kind of help will be much appreciated

I am looking for an equivalent drive that will fit my 2013 HP DV 7t- 7000 Pavilion notebook
which  is too small is  momentus xt ATA serial 750 GB Drive model st750LX003
I AM LOOKING FOR AN EQUIVALENT DISC DRIVE GREATER THAN 1 TERABYTE IN SIZE BUT CONFORMS TO THE SAME ELECTRONICS CONFIGURATION SAME NUMBER OF PINS in connector  ETC
please note replacement can be any known brand could be anything from a Fujitsu to a Western Digital. The drive that's being replaced was a Seagate momentus XT Drive
any suggestions of replacement hard drives that fit this Hardware specification would be appreciated

Hello,

I have a Synology Diskstation 412+ NAS in my home office that is nearly full.  The NAS was purchased November of 2012 and has 4 Western Digital 2TB Red drives configured in RAID 6.  I am currently using 3.2 out of the 3.6 TB capacity (89%) and need to increase the capacity to 6-10 TB.

When I purchased the NAS it was being used for both work and home files. The work files involved backing up a web server,  a file server and 1 workstation while the home files included pictures and videos.  I decided to configure the drives in RAID6 so that I could weather up to two drive failures. In the past 5 years I had one drive go bad and the replacement was super easy with no data loss or downtime. I also have a new spare 2TB Red drive in a box in case another drive fails.

My work situation has changed and I no longer need to be able to handle two simultaneous disk failures. In order to keep my RAID 6 and increase my capacity, I think I have to replace all four drives.  If I was starting out today, I would rather have two 8TB drives mirrored and have a third 8TB drive available for a spare. I am looking for advice on the best way to expand my capacity while not breaking the bank.  FYI, I purchased a Western Digital 8TB EasyStore external drive that I will use to backup the NAS before I make any changes. I currently backup my NAS volumes to multiple smaller drives.

Here are the options I am considering:

1. Reconfigure current 4x2TB system to RAID 5 increasing …

My 2.0 TB Western Digital Caviar Green (WD20EARS) has started showing up as Unitialized 0.0 MB in DiskMgmt.msc

Had partitioned it as a single physical partion with MBR.

There are around 25GB of photos/files which are important for me and we seek your kind help in recovering those.

My exposure to Hard Disk and Recovery Techniques is very minimal, so my apologies for newbie questions.

Which order do I follow to improve chances of recovery?
Also a few queries:
1. Can / should the Disk be initialized before running a recovery software?
2. Should the MBR be recreated?
3. Give same formatting and file type as before?
4. Can cloning work without unitializing

Any recommendations on softwares to be used would be appreciated.


I had this question after viewing What exactly does the 'Initialize Disk' option in Disk Management do?.

I have  a several year old WD my book Live that is having problems - I can't connect to it  (it's a nas / ethernet device)

It's out of warranty. I took it apart and ran crystal disk info on the hard drive. it's failing / got smart errors.

It seems I can't just put in a new hard drive, huh?  The unit's OS is on the hard drive, right?

So with a failed hard drive, is there any relatively simple way to get it going again with a new hard drive?

Hi

There is a problem with my hdd. I am trying to copy the files from it now.
I can't attach it directly with SATA as sometimes the hdd will become very slow (i.e 100kb/s) and my windows 10 will become halted.
I am currently copying it over usb cable.
The speed is average at 4 MB/s, but sometimes it will dropped to 100kb - 300kb (it can last for several mins to 15 mins, but it still running). The speed will pick up again ( 4MB /s) whenever I turn off and turn it on back.

Can I know what's the problem with the hard disk?
I will request for RMA after I copied all the files.
Thanks



Data Lifeguard Diagnosis tool to check, this is the result I received "Test Result: FAIL" "06 Quick test on drive 2 didn not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 102 (unknown test) Smart self-test did not complete on drive 2.

I am tryiong to backup a Western Digital NAS to 2 external USB hard drives. The NAS is running Windows 2008 Storage essentials.

The drives need to be rotated with a drive being taken offsite on alternate nights.

It also needs to send an email notification on job completion or failure.

I have tried using the built in backup utiity in Windows but it doesnt have email notification. I have tried using task sacheduler to send email when certain criteria are met but it just wont work for me.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a simple, free backup solution that will do these 2 things?

Thanks

Can the NAS be used in a PC?
Are they worth the extra $

Thanks

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/203tb-western-digital-wd30ezrz-wd-blue-35-hdd-sata-iii-6gb-s-5400-rpm-64mb-cache

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/3tb-wd-red-wd30efrx-35-nas-hdd-sata-iii-6gb-s-5400rpm-64mb-cache-ncq

Purchased a 4 TB Western Digital My Cloud and configured through my router fine.  But due to the slow transfer rate I decided to use the ethernet cable and go direct to my laptop.  The Ethernet controller is Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.30) on a Windows 10 Toshiba Laptop.  I have the latest driver.

When I go to check properties I note:
IPv4 Connectivity - No Network Access
IPV6 Connectivity - No Network Access

So of course I gt the message "Ethernet doesn't have a valid ip configuration".  

P.S. this is the first time I have used the ethernet connection on this laptop.

I saw a youtube video showing how to manually configure but I am a bit hesitant and thought I might check this great forum.

Any ideas?
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Hi Experts,

I have a WD MybookLive of 1TB. I connect to it via internet cable, and all of the sudden I got disconnected and when I connected back I was not able to see my data there. So far I have tried different ways to look for my data but no luck. I tried from the UI, Shares shows only the Public folder which is empty! I also tried to ssh to it and explore every folder possible but I'm still not able to see my data there. When I \\theipofmybooklive\ It shows me an empty folder. Please help.

I'm trying to understand the advantage of the old style external drive e.g. Western Digital My Book, which needs to be powered separately from the computer, compared with external drives that are powered by USB.  If they both perform the same function, why bother with the old drive if the computer can sufficiently power the drive with less cables and mess and furthermore lack of a need for a power socket?

Hello Experts
I have Western Digital external hard drive, now all of sudden when I plug the hard drive it gives me the error

You need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it.

I ran chkdsk, using the command chkdsk g: /f /r however it is processing every file as follows

File record segment 1 is unreadable.
 0 percent complete. (1 of 148480 file records processed)
File record segment 2 is unreadable.
 0 percent complete. (2 of 148480 file records processed)
File record segment 3 is unreadable.
 0 percent complete. (3 of 148480 file records processed)
File record segment 4 is unreadable.
 0 percent complete. (4 of 148480 file records processed)

I'm no sure the what's the status and what to do now