- Format wd easystore trouble shoot drivers#
- Format wd easystore trouble shoot update#
- Format wd easystore trouble shoot driver#
- Format wd easystore trouble shoot upgrade#
- Format wd easystore trouble shoot full#
Here below, you'll find 1 quick fix and 4 methods to fix WD external hard drive not working issue. But it's still a tough issue for ordinary users when their external hard drive, USB or SD card etc devices suddenly become unrecognized, not working or responding in PC. Though it's no longer a new problem that external hard drive fails to work or suddenly fail to show up in PC. If you have any methods to fix my issue and make the WD external hard drive work again, please help me. I've saved quite a lot of important files inside the drive. I don't know what reasons have made the drive not responding, and neither I know any solutions. I've changed the USB port but it still not working.
Format wd easystore trouble shoot update#
Seagate also has a page discussing the need to update the nForce drivers, which may be true for other manufacturer's drivers." My 1TB WD external hard drive is not working on my Windows 10 PC and I can do nothing to the drive since it fails to show up in This PC.
Format wd easystore trouble shoot drivers#
Nvidia even hasĪ web page with a script that will scan your PC and tell you what drivers you need to update, both for the GPU and for their nForce chipset SATA hard drive controller. In reality, I only needed to update my SATA controller driver, which in my case is the Nvidia nForce 680i driver. This was a confusing problem to solve since it appeared to be due to either hard drive problems or perhaps a Vista problem.
Format wd easystore trouble shoot driver#
After the driver update, no hardware errors are produced and no significant number of bad sectors were found. When I ran the Windows utility chkdsk/f/r almost half of the hard drive was marked as containing bad sectors, which later turned out to be false. I had previously tried using a standalone disk partition and formatting utility, and although I could create and do a quick format of the 2TB drive, it would still fail basic software-based hard drive diagnostics, falsely showing hard drive seek errors.
Format wd easystore trouble shoot upgrade#
The solution was to upgrade my Nvidia 680i chipset drivers, available in an update package from Nvidia, not through Microsoft's normal driver and OS updating pages as far as I know. I just solved this problem for my HP Blackbird PC, and am now able to easily partition and format a new Seagate 2TB internal hard drive from 32-bit Vista that runs on this PC. See this discussion at the HP PC gaming forum, the concluding posts on page 2: Western Digital blames the bios, Asus blames vista. I have made many calls into western digital and Asus to see if this is a bios issue or a drive failure the conversation pretty much goes like this. I am at my wits end trying to figure this out. The drive in vista drive manager shows as a 1963.1gb drive but looking at it through "My computer" its only showing a The funny part though when I extend this partition to its maximum this is where things get wierd. gparted has reported a sucess on the format but looking at it in windows it usually only shows as a 1mb drive for some reason. I have also used what appears to be sucessfully using gparted (linux) to format the drive as NTFS. (I have run other drives out of this sata port
I have replaced the cables 2x just to dismiss this as a problem. Trying a diffrent aproach I have downloaded the WD diagnostic tools that are run through vista and they always give me a "Cable Error" in vista. I have also tried to extend the drive through windows unsucessfully it will not alow me to increase the storage to over the However the remaining 1tb is not able to be formated or partitioned through windows. I have done several multi gb file transfers to this partion drive appears to sucessfully read and right files. If I partiion the drive (usually getting some i/o errors through windows drive manager) I can create a 1tb partion and sucessfully do a quick format. eitherįull format stops at 54% or quick format gives me a failure. the replacement drive is having the exact same issues. I have already replaced the drive once through new egg.
Format wd easystore trouble shoot full#
I can not get windows to format past the 1tb point if I do a full format it stops at 54% and hangs if I do a quick format I get an I/O error. I am running Vista Ultimate 32bit service pack 2 all current patchesĪsus P5NSLI mb (award bios) bios is most current (1801) from ASUS siteĭrive is Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EADS 2TB drive I am having a formatting issues with my new 2 Terabyte Western Digital Drive using Windows tools (computer management: storage : Disk management)
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