Well everyone I have been fighting with my WD Dual-Option External USB Harddrive for ye...ars that is since about 2006 I bought it in 2005 so it did work until just after the one year warantee. Low and behold I am obsessed with finding the problem of this thing. I took the cable out of my printer and stuck the cable from the HD into the printer to see if the cable and the USB was working -which they were so I decided to try the "Richie2066 Method" that is I turned my Hard-drive to where it would lay flat (wd readable up)
it didn't work so I turned it over to the other side upside down and it didn't work (now it's plugged in this whole time) and then I turned it back over and laid it flat so I could get the hammer to it. And what.da.ya.know the three bongs sounded and WD Button mangager appeared and Wow the unit is now working for the first time in 3 months. Don't know how long it will last but we will see. I think maybe it might have to do with the docking of the Hard Drive's scan. Maybe it was stuck and I popped it back in, anyway now all I have to do is find out where I can get a copy of the original software to reload the Dantz Retrospect for WD & the WD button manager, both of these need to be reinstalled on this new internal HD. I've heard of a lot of things Richie but this one needs to be in the List of Weird computer fixes. Hey you think this calls for a class action suit for a recall and replacement of all of our WD Ext HDrives
