Questions & Answers for: Western Digital spin a win

...C:\Documents and Settings\(user)\Local Settings\Temp Then try to stop your device again. ok easy. SPINDOWN. thats it unlike a flash chip there are disks spinning in there up to 10000rpm they wont ...

...of testing, connect the power adapter directly to the wall. If you do not hear or feel the drive spin up when you connect the power, the drive will need to be replaced. If the drive spins up, but ...

...recognized when connected to pc or laptop. Each running win xp pro o/s. Blue light comes on, drive spins up, then starts asking to search for drivers for the device. You can search all you want but ...

...Win 9x or 2000 OS right click on my computer go to manage then disk management to se if the comp recognizes the drive if not. then you will want to remove the drive and install it in a computer. the ...

FAT table reconstruction? My first time on here, but.... I assume you're running Windows - if drive spins up, that's good - if it's OS drive and you get no Windows, probably a Master Boot Record (MBR)

...Win XP will recognize that a usb connection has been made but when I go to My PC to find my hd drive it´s not there. I was working fine yesterday. Those 'clank' noises are definitely not a good ...

My WD 500GB USB drive spins up and makes a few clicking noises and then stops. Drive doesn't show up in My Computer. Disk Manager shows it and says it needs to be initalized but when I try it fails. ...

...happens. It doesn't show that we plugged it in or anything. HOw can I fix this. If the 1 tb is spinning up, which I assume it is, the new PC (assuming a Win 7 OS) should see it and mount a