yeehhhaaaaa....... thanks to the person who said "use the shorter cable that comes with the Western Digital drive". IT WORKS!!
Symptom: Blue LED turns on, drive just clicks but does not spin, laptop says "USB device not recognized". Picked it up and shook it, drive spins but still USB Device not recognized. It was connected with a 4 feet USB cable. But it works on my office laptop. Puzzled I seek Google's help (as usual), end up in this forum and then use the smaller (6 inches) cable and boom, the WD 160 GB is recognized right away.
Thanks once again.
Surprized though, the 2006 solution works in 2009 also!! WD learn something plzzzzzzzzzz.
