Western Digital MyBook Tip

May 2nd, 2007 · Comments · gadgets and technology

I’ve had trouble with the Western Digital MyBook staying mounted on the local computer I’ve used — and tried a few computers and all three connectivity options. The trick (so far) seems to be mounting the drive from another network machine. I’ve been connected with the drive accessible for about 24 hours now…

I guess the minimal activity that occurs prevents the drive from sleeping to the point where it unmounts. Since I use this as my main music system, it’s important that it actually be there when I want to hear or see something from iTunes.

I’ve contacted Western Digital support through their site about this issue, but have yet to hear back and given that it’s been weeks I’m not counting on hearing anything either. Until we add true network storage here, this seems to be the answer.

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I've heard if you go into Windows Drive Management and manually assign a drive letter to the MyBook, the drive should stay connected.

eSATA users having problems may wish to update the MyBook firmware from Western DIgital's web site. I heard this helps greatly with glitchy eSATA issues.

If you get sick of the MyBook constantly going to sleep every ten minutes, use a free backup utility (snapfiles.com has some good ones) and schedule it to backup a blank txt file every 6 minutes or so. This will fool the MyBook into thinking there is regular activity so it won't sleep.

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