View and Download Western Digital My Book user manual online. External hard drive. My Book Storage pdf manual download. With a My Book external hard drive, produced by Western Digital, you can store large amounts of digital data, including music, videos and photos. In addition, you can use a My Book hard drive to back up your computer's internal hard drive in case of data loss.

Hi -I upgraded my laptop from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro a couple of days ago. I've encountered a few quirks (getting 'locked out' from my email, no audio, etc.), but I've gotten everything figured out so far except this one thing (that I know of).I have an external hard drive - Fantom GFP2000Q3 Pro 2TB USB/eSata/Firewire - that was working perfectly with Windows 7. I had it attached to my laptop using the eSata port. After I upgraded to Windows10, however, it just was not recognized at all.

I discovered that it works fine when I plug it into the USB 3.0 port - Windows automatically recognizes it and it operates perfectly. When I plug it back into the eSata port though - nothing. I tried runningthe Hardware and Devices Troubleshooter, but Windows still did not even know it's plugged in when in the eSata port.I contacted Fantom, and they told me that these drives do not require any drivers with 'modern' operating systems - everything they need is built into the OS.I found one other posting here from someone else having the same issue, but his thread did not reveal anything helpful - his still isn't working either. I posted on his thread and am also starting anew one.

I apologize for the redundancy - just didn't know if my post would get seen there.Thank you for your help!- Amy Bass. Hi Amy,Please write to us with the following details.1) Are you able to connect other devices to your computer through the same USB port?2) What is the make and model of your computer?I suggest you to go to the manufacturer's website and download latestUSB Driver. After you are done with the download follow the steps given below.a) Press Windows key + X and selectDevice Manager.b) Search for USB Driver and expand it.c) Right click on the USB Driverand select Uninstall.Once you have successfully uninstalled the USB Driverthen install the downloaded USB Driverfrom the manufacturer's website. Let us know the status of the issue. Hello -Thank you for your reply. I'm afraid, though, that you missed my statement of the problem. I am having no trouble at all with my USB connection - in fact, the connection to the drive using my USB port works perfectly.The problem I am having is with connection to the external hard drive using myeSata port.I contacted the manufacturer about this and was told that there are no drivers, that 'modern' operating systems contain all the info needed to control the drive.To me, Windows 10 does not appear to be searching for something attached to theeSata port.

When I plug the drive into theUSB port, the OS quickly recognizes the drive, and it pops up with a 'what do you want to do with these files' window -no problem there. When I plug it into theeSata port - nothing at all happens. With Windows 7 (my previous OS), the drive is recognized in either port. I was using theeSata port previously, and I would like to continue using it (to free up my USB ports for other uses).So - stating the problem briefly. Windows 10 does not see my device when I plug it into theeSata port.How do I get Windows 10 to recognize an eSata device?Thank you,- Amy. I have a slightly different problem with a WD My Book Studio II external HDD system setup as Raid 1 connected to an eSata port. It connected and worked flawlessly under Windows 8.1, 8, 7 and earlier windows version.

Initially worked following upgradeto Windows 10 (August 2, 2015) but started to randomly drop off line starting in late August. The drive reconnects following a reboot but then eventually drops off; sometimes a day or so later and other times within minutes. One time the drive was not recognizedduring the reboot so switched the eSata port connection and the drive was recognized during the next reboot. The system event log has an entry ' The storage device produced an internal dump.'

Followed by ' An error was detected on deviceDeviceHarddisk1DR1 during a paging operation.' (DR1 is the external HDD connected to the eSata port) and ' Disk 1 has been surprise removed.' Running Windows 10 Pro 64bit on a ASUS P5N64WS motherboard. Also running an NVIDIA Raid 5 off themotherboard chipset. I have the same issue.

Fantom Greendrive worked fine over eSata on my PC running Win 7, not so with Win 10. MS pushed me onto ASUS, ASUS tried to tell me to buy a new external HDD. Drive works over firewire and USB, not eSATA. Very frustrating.Hi, My issue involved an IcyBox 3640 with an Asus motherboard. Changing the BIOS setting from IDE to AHCI solved the problem.

Note that AHCI will give better performance with SSD anyway. Note also, that you will have to google to find the correct setof steps to follow so that Windows 10 will boot correctly after changing the BIOS setting from IDE to AHCI. Since I posted this I discovered if I change the SATA mode in BIOS from AHCI to RAID, it works, almost the opposite of what you describe.

I arrived at this by plugging the Fantom into a different Win 7 PC which has only IDE and RAID modes, andwas set to RAID, and worked. So for now if I want a fast backup, I temporarily set the mode to RAID (this on a powerful ASUS motherboard), realizing that for everything else it's best to laeve the mode as AHCI. I may try reformatting and factory-resettingthe Fantom (make it like brand-new) to see if that lets it be seen as AHCI, which is after all what Fantom recommends.

Reps and Fantom, MS and ASUS have been surprisingly unhelpful, but at least this workaround gets the job done. I had a problem where I had attempted to use an external hard drive (Fantom 4TB) with an eSATA cable after I had been using the drive with a USB 2.0 cable. All of my drivers were up to date/installed. The drive showed up under disk management, but not infile manager. No drive letter assigned and all of the options under disk management greyed out/unusable.

Still works correctly using USB cable.It appears that using the drive via USB prevents it from being (later) used via eSATA without cleaning the disk, which is to say making it as if never used before.So, I first reconnected drive via USB to copy all files to another drive. Then I opened diskpart from a command prompt. Then entered 'list disk' to get list of HDDs in my PC (Note: 'List Volume' command will not show anything for the drive in question).Making sure I had correct disk, entered 'select disk 3', 3 being the external drive connected via USB at this point. Then entered 'clean disk.' Now you should see the drive in disk management screen as unallocated. Close programs and power off PC and external drive. Change cable to external drive from USB to eSATA.

Power on drive first and then PC. Open disk management again. You should see theexternal drive as unallocated and you can now add it back in as a simple volume same as if it were a new internal HDD.This problem is not explained very well and there are many un-necessary and wrong solutions floating around, some tied to programs you have to pay for that may or may not solve the problem. Apparently, the manufacturer of the external drive I have even chargesfor emailed support. Very poor way to handle customer service in my opinion.If drive works while connected via USB but not while connected via eSATA, try this method first before you waste your time with drivers, etc.

Western Digital My Book external hard driveMy Book is a series of produced. There are currently nine series of My Book drives; Essential Edition, Home Edition, Office Edition, Mirror Edition, Studio Edition, Premium Edition, Elite Edition, Pro Edition, AV Dvr 'Live Edition', and the World Edition.My Book drives are designed to look like a standard black hardback book, with the exception of the Pro/Studio series, which are silver, and the World series, which are white. Other than the book-like appearance of the drive's case, My Book drives originally featured vent holes on the top of the drives which spelled out a message in. Contents.Essential Edition In addition to the book-like design, the My Book Essential Edition drives have an Intelligent feature that stops the after ten minutes of inactivity, rather than the usual expedient of slowing them down. The unit also turns on and off with the computer it is attached to.Essential Edition My Book drives are almost entirely black, with the exception of a single blue light, used to indicate power and activity, or a circular green light that is located on the front of the drive. The older model has a white light.' Essential Edition' drives used USB 2.0 for connectivity are available in capacities of 80 GB, 160 GB, 250 GB, 320 GB, 400 GB, 500 GB and 750 GB.

Premium Edition Premium Edition drives are similar to the Essential Edition model but also include 400 ports, an integrated visual capacity gauge and Western Digital backup software.Premium Edition My Book drives have the same black case as Essential Edition drives; however, the light surrounding the power button is blue. Also, inside the standard blue light is another blue ring light that contains eight individual segments which indicate the remaining space on the drive. This edition is available with storage capacities of 160 GB, 250 GB, 320 GB, 400 GB, and 750 GB. Pro Edition The Pro Edition My Books contain all of the features of the Premium Edition ones, but with added Firewire 800 connectivity for fast data transfer.

In addition, the Pro Edition My Books replace the Western Digital backup software found on the Premium Editions with EMC Retrospect Express backup and recovery software.Pro Edition My Book drives have the same basic case design as Premium Edition drives; however, the case is silver rather than black. In addition, it includes a circular blue capacity gauge LED divided into six segments (representing 17% of usage per segment) and an outer ring that represents drive activity.The 'Pro Edition MyBook' is marketed as a solution that can be used as a backup device. My Book World Edition (WD10000H1NC)The World Edition My Books function as (NAS), by way of an interface. They also feature an extra USB host port to allow an additional USB drive to be. Data on first generation (Blue Rings) My Book World is accessed as / shared folders. The second generation (White Lights) expands the access choices to include NFS, FTP, an iTunes server, and a Twonky media server.In addition, the World Edition uses to gain to the drive via the Internet.It has the same basic case design as the Premium Edition drives, including the capacity gauge, except the color of the World Edition is white.

It has the same ventilation as the other editions.Network speed Although MyBook Ethernet-capable disks come with a Gigabit Ethernet interface, the network speed is significantly slower. Especially for older 'blue rings' models (200 MHz ARM CPU and 32 MByte RAM), where it varies between 3–6 MByte/s, with an average of 4.5 MByte/s. Bloons 2 level 51. The newer 'white lights' MyBook World Edition 1 TB and 2 TB storage capacity models, WDH1NC and WDH2NC (oxnas810, 380 MHz ARM CPU and 128 MByte RAM), have drive speeds comparable to USB, at about 10 MB/s write and 25 MB/s read.The 'white lights' WDH1NC is Jumbo Frames capable and can achieve 36 MByte/s reading and 18 MByte/s writing speed over Gigabit Ethernet. Internals. Controller board for My Book World EditionThis drive runs on on an Oxford Semiconductor 0XE800 chip which has the ARM926EJ-S core. In addition it uses a Cicada Simpliphy vt6122 Gigabit Ethernet chipset, and a 32 Mbit DDR Synchronous DRAM chip.

The webserver is the minihttp server, although older 'bluerings' use. The drives of the World Edition are or formatted, which means that the drive can be mounted as a standard drive from within Linux if removed from the casing and installed in a normal PC.With both sets of commands a utility such as can be used to determine which paths are relevant for a given setup. Extending capabilities The device can be 'unlocked' and accessed via terminal (newer versions of WDH1NC10000 do not need to be 'unlocked': ), meaning that the WD MioNet can be disabled so the device can be run with an unrestricted Linux OS, at the cost of voiding the.

The unlocking makes it possible to install other software on MyBook. For example, the user can run a different web server or an ftp server (such as ) on it, use for mounting shared directories natively from, or install a such as. My Book StudioThe MyBook Studio Edition comes with quad interface: USB 2.0 / Firewire 400 / Firewire 800 and eSATA. It is marketed for use with Mac OS X. This edition is available with storage capacities of 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB.The current edition (as of November 2010) has two Firewire 800 ports and one USB 2.0 mini port. It comes pre-formatted as Mac OS X HFS+.All current My Book Studio LX drives include a 5400RPM Hitachi branded Raptor hard drive.The 'MyBook Studio Edition II' contains two drives and is designed to be used as a RAID system for increased performance. This edition is available with storage capacities of 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB and 6 TB.The two drives can be replaced by the user.The LED gauge has a design fault on these disks.

Several users reported that some of the LEDs were burning out after 3 to 4 months of normal usage. Live Duo My Book Live Duo was released in January 2012. It features two drives (totaling 6 or 4 TB, depending on the product version) that can be configured in a array; in that case, all data is automatically mirrored and can be recovered if one of the drives fail (but effective drive space is halved). It sports a similar design to the previous My Book Live, but unlike that one this product has a top cover that allows for easily servicing and replacing the drives.

It also has one and one connection. AV DVR Expander The My Book DVR Expander is intended to increase the disk capacity of consumer or compatible. It can also be used connected to a computer, if necessary. The Expander is available with a storage capacity of 1 TB.The DVR Expander was originally designed specifically for the series 3 and onwards and, at that time, the only connectivity was an port. Recent versions come with a connection, as well, and are compatible with, and the Pace, Time Warner and Scientific Atlanta brands of DVR. 1 GB is equal to one billion bytes.

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