Recent content by IgnatzS

Hi, I have a WD My Passport 2TB which up until very recently has been working fine, 1.63 TB used (I'm on a Win7 64 bit). Occasionally when trying to safely remove it, it would refuse, saying its still in use for no reason, but I would just shut down and unplug. A few days ago, I bought a new...

Mattios - Yeah, new drives each time, but I'll try that out to see if its software related, thanks! Solandri - Different ports but I have had to remove it without safely ejecting it first, so it could definitely be that. Win 7 is just so slow in loading the damn thing that I can't when I'm in a...

So I had a 1 TB external HDD, NTFS format, USB 3.0. It's full of my work files, music etc, 800 Gb. One day, Windows (Win 7 x64) says I need to format it to use it. I run chkdsk, no physical errors, it just seems as if the MBR is messed up and the drive just shows up as unformatted. I use Active...

Hi, I'm on a Windows 8 machine and had my 2TB WD My Book Studio II with the GreenDrives fail. More specifically, the enclosure failed, disconnecting and reconnecting repeatedly for some time before failing to power up entirely. I'm sure it was the enclosure itself that failed as last I had...