01-12-2013, 12:26 PM
Does anyone have much experience with external hard drives?
About 6 months ago, I bought a WD USB 2.0 3TB external hard drive and it has been wonderful ever since - except for today.
During those 6 months, I used it with both my PCs and my Blu Ray player and would often plug it into one of my PC's USB 2.0 ports and copy some video files onto it. Then I would unplug it and plug it into my Blu Ray player and watch those files. I would do that about 3 or 4 times per day - most every day.
Well, today it seems to have failed. It is no longer recognized by either of those two machines. When I plug it in, the machines react as if I had never plugged it in.
Would anyone be able to help me by informing me as to any probable causes for this or what I can do about this?
I kind of figure that maybe plugging and unplugging it into one machine and then another so many times might have been a factor?
I never heard that it would be a problem to plug or unplug it while a machine was running. I never heard that you should power off a machine before plugging it in or out of that machine.
Would anyone please be able to give me any advice besides just going out and buying a new one?
Thank you.
About 6 months ago, I bought a WD USB 2.0 3TB external hard drive and it has been wonderful ever since - except for today.
During those 6 months, I used it with both my PCs and my Blu Ray player and would often plug it into one of my PC's USB 2.0 ports and copy some video files onto it. Then I would unplug it and plug it into my Blu Ray player and watch those files. I would do that about 3 or 4 times per day - most every day.
Well, today it seems to have failed. It is no longer recognized by either of those two machines. When I plug it in, the machines react as if I had never plugged it in.
Would anyone be able to help me by informing me as to any probable causes for this or what I can do about this?
I kind of figure that maybe plugging and unplugging it into one machine and then another so many times might have been a factor?
I never heard that it would be a problem to plug or unplug it while a machine was running. I never heard that you should power off a machine before plugging it in or out of that machine.
Would anyone please be able to give me any advice besides just going out and buying a new one?
Thank you.
(This post was last modified: 01-12-2013, 12:30 PM by AliShibaz.)