WD my book live doesn't appear in 'network' on some PC's (self.HomeNetworking) submitted 2 years ago by Shrubberer I run a my book live from WD (1 TB NAS) and until now I had no trouble accessing the drive. However last week I connected a new PC to the I. My WD external hard drive just suddenly stopped being recognized by my computer while I was watching a movie. The light still comes on and it doesn. Important Windows information to know before getting started: My Book and My Passport drives that are sold as . In order to make a drive compatible with a PC. Windows 8. 1 and WD My Book Live. I bought a Western Digital My Book Live 1. TB and connected it to my home network via an Ethernet cable. The setup went fine and I could connect to the NAS drive from my Toshiba laptop running Windows 7. I could back up and copy files to the drive. The NAS server is assigned a fixed IP number by the DHCP server in the D- Link ADSL router. The NAS server's name is . I access it by this name on the LAN. It is also part of my home's workgroup. However, when I tried to connect to the drive from my HP Proliant running Windows 8. Pro it does not . I can see the Toshiba laptop on the LAN and share files with it from the HP (and my wife's Acer laptop running Windows 7 Pro). ![]() I can access the NAS drive by typing in the IP number in Windows Explorer, but it does not show it as a network computer and cannot find it as \\Mybook. Live at all. It does not show up as a media device in Windows Explorer, only the Windows 8. All these functions work on the Windows 7 Toshiba.. I can access the NAS drive via the WD Dashboard in the web browser via its IP number and access all functions. I disabled power saving on the My Book Live to eliminate any potential problems. Windows 8. 1 is up to date with automatic updates, the WD NAS server firmware is up to date and I downloaded the later WD software before installing it. I tried to set up a Windows 7 Pro desktop on another home network to serve as a backup destination for a new Lenovo laptop running Windows 8. The Bad The WD My Book Live's hard drive can't be serviced by users, and there's no USB port to add more storage. Unlike the My Book Edition, the My Book Live doesn't have any USB ports, or any other peripheral ports, for that matter. Further investigation shows something weird. Both the MBL and my PS3 have an IP of 198.168.1.3. That can't be right can it? I thought they all had to have different IPs. Router reboot perhaps? If that doesn't work, is there some way I can assign a new IP to the. So I installed a WD My Book Live 2TB NAS storage device to store and make available my music, photo and video. Click Browse and usually the MYBOOKLIVE will show up even though it doesn't in the regular Network list. Then you can basically mount this. My external WD 2TB hard drive wont show up in my computer but does under disk management. Western Digital My Book Live Duo 4TB review Western Digital My Book Live Duo 4TB review Kat Orphanides facebook twitter google+ email Comments Image 1 of 3 Our Rating Reevoo reviews Price when reviewed 281. The Lenovo Windows 8 laptop does not see the Windows 7 Pro desktop PC on the network, although I can reach it by. IP number. This leads me to suspect Windows 8 to be the culprit. Any suggestions? Thank you. Windows 7 Forums is the largest help and support community, providing friendly help and advice for Microsoft Windows 7 Computers such as Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a custom build. Similar help and support threads Thread Forum My Book Live (western digital. Lion doesn't recognize My Book external harddri.. I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, but I need to downgrade again, because I can't access my work on my external harddrive anymore (among other things I can live with). I have a 2. 00. 8 Western Digital My Book. After the upgrade, my system doesn't recognize the harddrive anymore. Instead of the icon appearing on the desktop, I get a message that says: The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. Then it has 3 buttons: Initialize.. I see the harddrive listed there as 2. GB WD (not the same name . I attached a screenshot (I removed the Connection ID number, wasn't sure if that was a security issue, but it was there). Status: Not Supported. I don't know what that means, but looks like an issue. Also, the 4 buttons are grayed out to Verify or Repair, so I can't do anything. I tried contacting Western Digital, they were no help, they just said to download the latest driver, but only after making a backup of the files on the harddrive. Which I would do, if I could access it! Is there a solution to allow Lion to recognize the harddrive? Or. 2. Can I downgrade back to Snow Leopard without making a backup of my computer? I don't want to use my Time Machine because I read that it would cause problems with the downgrade, so I haven't made any backups of my work (I usu. So I can't restore from Time Machine because the work that's backed up is too old. TB WD My Book not showing up in Windows 8 - .
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