Recent content by Paulb47

Well, I tried 8 & 8.4--it seems YEARS ago, and I've got 10 on a Lappy somewhere. Basically Microsoft could no longer pay ME enough to hassle with their bull *. I'm still work-horsing off XP Pro, converting my HUGE legacy systems to Win 7 64. That's when I can even trouble myself with...

NO! Western Digital will NOT trouble shoot any returned drive even at the level of trying to replace the PCB controllers. They simply are not geared up to do that. The best you can hope for is that they will replace the drive (if under warranty) but they will not attempt to fix YOUR drive or...

Dear JM, You're actually getting a lot of very LAME advise---no offense posters, advise here CAN at times be good. Critical issue to understand with WD MyBook externals is that they have 2/TWO controller Cards. A PCB card which is more or less typical of any platter HDD but then a another...

^ My nearly 30 years in Enterprise IT would tend to contradict the contention immediately above. First of all I've NEVER worked in IT where PC's where anything but workstations for email and other like tasks. Never had the pleasure of a Development or Deployment environment PC based. That...