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Jul 11, 2007 wd my book not recognized at start up by smokey1961 jul 11, 2007 9. My cdrom drives quit working right before i got this. In windows 10, initializing the disk to mbr or gpt should directly solve this problem. Dec 20, 2012 i have a wd 1tb mybook 1140 external hard drive, and it has worked fine up until now. I bought a western digital my book essential edition 1tb external hard drive. Id be grateful for some suggestions to resolve this issue please. How to solve my wd hard drive not recognized in windows 10. I have tried testdisk by cgsecurity and it did not have the drive listed. Quick fix for the request failed due to fatal device. Western digital wd my book essential edition data recovery.
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