Win 7 and WD my book

[aclim]

Hey guys. I have a WD Mybook and Win7 does not recognize it. Win7 just gives me and error stating that it could not load drivers and that it is not recognized device.

Ive searched the WD forums and didnt find anything useful. Anyone have this problem. It sucks because I have alot of stuff on the drive that I need. Drive works fine in vista and XP.

any help appreciated

edit: Drive only uses USB

 

[jjj807]

wd my books must be formatted in fat32 to be recognized by win7. yours is probably ntfs

 

[aclim]

wd my books must be formatted in fat32 to be recognized by win7. yours is probably ntfs

lol damnit. Thanks. I did not know this!!!!

 

[Soundmanred]

LOL, I have 6 of them, all NTFS, all on my Windows7 machine. They work the same on my 32bit Win7 machine and my x64 Win7 machine.
Please don't believe everything people tell you OP.

 

[aclim]

LOL, I have 6 of them, all NTFS, all on my Windows7 machine. They work the same on my 32bit Win7 machine and my x64 Win7 machine.
Please don't believe everything people tell you OP.

crap wtf. This is frustrating. Good thing I still have a vista install on another drive. Ima try it when I get home

 

[zuffy]

I have a WD Book and it works fine in Windows 7. If you are using firewire, then you have an unknown device in Device Manager but the drive will still work. That unknown is related to the power button. Since you're using USB, it's pretty much plug and play, regardless if the drive is FAT32 or NTFS.

 

[jjj807]

you run into this problem with ntfs if the computer was originally set for windows xp, when you switch to win7 this glitch appears, to fix it the drive needs to be fat32.

 

[aclim]

I went from vista 64 to win7 64. Im using usb as that is the only interface the drive has.... no solution yet, still messing with it

 

[Soundmanred]

you run into this problem with ntfs if the computer was originally set for windows xp, when you switch to win7 this glitch appears, to fix it the drive needs to be fat32.

Nope.

 

[zuffy]

Try different USB ports.