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Western Digital My Book 500GB Not Installing on my WIndows XP, Help?
I just pcked up a Western Digital My Book 5000GB Essential Edition.
According to the install guide WIndows XP should automatically recoginize the drive when connected. I've had no such luck. The drive does not show up when connected. A "New Hardware" found shows up when connected but does not find the driver when I go to install. Anyone run into the same problem or know how to fix? Thanks, - Dave |
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Western Digital My Book 500GB Not Installing on my WIndows XP, Help?
I have exactly the same problem... have you found the driver for it?
K. wrote: I just pcked up a Western Digital My Book 5000GB Essential Edition. According to the install guide WIndows XP should automatically recoginize the drive when connected. I've had no such luck. The drive does not show up when connected. A "New Hardware" found shows up when connected but does not find the driver when I go to install. Anyone run into the same problem or know how to fix? Thanks, - Dave |
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Western Digital My Book 500GB Not Installing on my WIndows XP, Help?
Just got mine today (320 GB) at Best Buy. Installed on Mac OS X using
FireWire and it works like a charm. Tried it on Windows using USB and got the same error Why is Windows such a pain? - Hahnemann |
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Western Digital My Book 500GB Not Installing on my WIndows XP, Help?
Previously Hahnemann wrote:
Just got mine today (320 GB) at Best Buy. Installed on Mac OS X using FireWire and it works like a charm. Tried it on Windows using USB and got the same error Why is Windows such a pain? Because they have a near-monopoly and people do not know they could get something far, far superiour. Personally I think that by now Linux system administration with Debian (decidedly not the easiest to handle distro) is far easier than with XP. I can change CPU, mainboard, Graphics card and Linux does not care, while XP has a heart attack. The best one was were I changed the CPU and XP would only boot into safe mode and it took me a day to get it working again by reinstalling every driver. Linux did not care at all... Arno |
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Western Digital My Book 500GB Not Installing on my WIndows XP, Help?
I would still like to make this work on Windows. Did you ever figure
out how to make this work? I've tried everything I could think of with no luck. - Hahnemann |
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Western Digital My Book 500GB Not Installing on my WIndows XP, Help?
On 9 Dec 2006 03:30:12 GMT, Arno Wagner wrote:
Because they have a near-monopoly and people do not know they could get something far, far superiour. Personally I think that by now Linux system administration with Debian (decidedly not the easiest to handle distro) is far easier than with XP. I can change CPU, mainboard, Graphics card and Linux does not care, while XP has a heart attack. The best one was were I changed the CPU and XP would only boot into safe mode and it took me a day to get it working again by reinstalling every driver. Linux did not care at all... Same with Macintosh when I used it last. Moved a hard drive from one Macintosh to a completely different Macintosh and it booted as if nothing's wrong. Move the hard drive from one PC to another PC and you'd be lucky to get Windows to start at all. Winblowsveryhard don't like changed hardware at all. Once I was ordered to reactivate XP after a simple memory upgrade when memory upgrade isn't supposed to do it. |
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Western Digital My Book 500GB Not Installing on my WIndows XP, Help?
Impmon wrote:
On 9 Dec 2006 03:30:12 GMT, Arno Wagner wrote: Because they have a near-monopoly and people do not know they could get something far, far superiour. Personally I think that by now Linux system administration with Debian (decidedly not the easiest to handle distro) is far easier than with XP. I can change CPU, mainboard, Graphics card and Linux does not care, while XP has a heart attack. The best one was were I changed the CPU and XP would only boot into safe mode and it took me a day to get it working again by reinstalling every driver. Linux did not care at all... Same with Macintosh when I used it last. Moved a hard drive from one Macintosh to a completely different Macintosh and it booted as if nothing's wrong. Move the hard drive from one PC to another PC and you'd be lucky to get Windows to start at all. Winblowsveryhard don't like changed hardware at all. Mindless pig ignorant silly stuff, particularly with data drives. Completely trivial to do a repair install with a boot drive with XP too. Once I was ordered to reactivate XP after a simple memory upgrade when memory upgrade isn't supposed to do it. Hardly the end of civilisation as we know it. And its a hell of a lot easier to change the hardware with a PC anyway. |
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Western Digital My Book 500GB Not Installing on my WIndows XP, Help?
Previously Impmon wrote:
On 9 Dec 2006 03:30:12 GMT, Arno Wagner wrote: Because they have a near-monopoly and people do not know they could get something far, far superiour. Personally I think that by now Linux system administration with Debian (decidedly not the easiest to handle distro) is far easier than with XP. I can change CPU, mainboard, Graphics card and Linux does not care, while XP has a heart attack. The best one was were I changed the CPU and XP would only boot into safe mode and it took me a day to get it working again by reinstalling every driver. Linux did not care at all... Same with Macintosh when I used it last. Moved a hard drive from one Macintosh to a completely different Macintosh and it booted as if nothing's wrong. Move the hard drive from one PC to another PC and you'd be lucky to get Windows to start at all. Winblowsveryhard don't like changed hardware at all. Once I was ordered to reactivate XP after a simple memory upgrade when memory upgrade isn't supposed to do it. Yea. This kind of reduces the value of system backups. All in all just a sign that Windows still is not a professional product... Arno |
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Western Digital My Book 500GB Not Installing on my WIndows XP, Help?
Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously Impmon wrote: On 9 Dec 2006 03:30:12 GMT, Arno Wagner wrote: Because they have a near-monopoly and people do not know they could get something far, far superiour. Personally I think that by now Linux system administration with Debian (decidedly not the easiest to handle distro) is far easier than with XP. I can change CPU, mainboard, Graphics card and Linux does not care, while XP has a heart attack. The best one was were I changed the CPU and XP would only boot into safe mode and it took me a day to get it working again by reinstalling every driver. Linux did not care at all... Same with Macintosh when I used it last. Moved a hard drive from one Macintosh to a completely different Macintosh and it booted as if nothing's wrong. Move the hard drive from one PC to another PC and you'd be lucky to get Windows to start at all. Winblowsveryhard don't like changed hardware at all. Once I was ordered to reactivate XP after a simple memory upgrade when memory upgrade isn't supposed to do it. Yea. This kind of reduces the value of system backups. Nope, a repair install fixes that trivially. All in all just a sign that Windows still is not a professional product... Nope, that it aint a free product so they need to slow thieves down. |
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Western Digital My Book 500GB Not Installing on my WIndows XP, Help?
Rod Speed wrote:
Impmon wrote: On 9 Dec 2006 03:30:12 GMT, Arno Wagner wrote: Because they have a near-monopoly and people do not know they could get something far, far superiour. Personally I think that by now Linux system administration with Debian (decidedly not the easiest to handle distro) is far easier than with XP. I can change CPU, mainboard, Graphics card and Linux does not care, while XP has a heart attack. The best one was were I changed the CPU and XP would only boot into safe mode and it took me a day to get it working again by reinstalling every driver. Linux did not care at all... Same with Macintosh when I used it last. Moved a hard drive from one Macintosh to a completely different Macintosh and it booted as if nothing's wrong. Move the hard drive from one PC to another PC and you'd be lucky to get Windows to start at all. Winblowsveryhard don't like changed hardware at all. Mindless pig ignorant silly stuff, particularly with data drives. Completely trivial to do a repair install with a boot drive with XP too. Once I was ordered to reactivate XP after a simple memory upgrade when memory upgrade isn't supposed to do it. Hardly the end of civilisation as we know it. And its a hell of a lot easier to change the hardware with a PC anyway. Hello, Rod: As the world's most popular commercial operating system, by far, it's painfully obvious why Windows has been victimized by so many rip-offs; hence, the need for Microsoft's more stringent anti-theft measures, starting with XP. On the other hand, Linux is freeware, and Macintosh OSes can only run on Apple's hardware. Not much incentive for crooks to bother with such "niche" players, is there? Not that those blissfully ignorant Mac/Linux clowns will ever understand anything so elementary! :-P Cordially, John Turco |
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