I came into the den a short time ago to see if the latest transfers had been completed. I reformatted the drive to NTSC and have spent two days copying about 200GB of home videos to the drive. So you can connect WD My Book to another healthy computer. I was trying to make a bootable flash drive from the startup disk creator, and when I went to erase the flash drive I accidentally erased the wrong drive, a 1TB removable drive. I bought a WD 1TB My Book Essential about 3 days ago at Best Buy. Sometimes the computer crash can cause inaccessible data and external hard drive.
If yes, you might need to consider backing up or recovering data from the WD hard drive immediately.
First I tried putting the hard drive into an external case - the drive was not accessible and did not work. I have got it working so wanted to let you all know, as I have read all of these forums looking for advice.
Western Digital external hard drive is well-known for its reliability and durability.