WD My Book World Edition

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My BookWorld unit disappeared from my network a few days ago. I've removed the drive (single TB drive) and connected it to a Windows PC. It sees the partitions as "Unknown." I found a driver for Linux filesystems under Windows, assuming the drive was Linux, or at least Linux-ish, still "Unknown."

Anybody ever been able to just hook one of these up and read it? I have to get to some stuff on it. This drive was the backup to another failed system.

The MyBook Worlds use the HFS+ filesystem. You'd probably be able to read it from a MacOS system. Or you can try HFS Explorer or MacDrive. Google for others.

 

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WD World Book - Another one

After taking apart my world book (1TB World Edition II) and look it over, it appears the main problem is heat. There is a little 2-2.5 inch fan to cool the 2 drives (WD5000AAJS), and needless to say the drives get very hot - especially any drive running at 7200RPM in that enclosure. It is a wonder they didn't have even more failures.

I attempted to replace my A drive which had failed, but after replacing the drives that was a doomed effort. The power switch no longer functions (no clue why, it is a simple solenoid affair surrounded by LEDs) but I am guessing that has to do with it not recognizing the drives or something. These days NAS/SAN drive enclosures are relatively inexpensive so if I don't use the new drives in a PC I will just toss them in a new external drive box. It is pretty disappointing though that the unit failed in less then 2 years.