my book wdg1nc1000e

[dcedavid]

It seems like many others I have made a disastrous decision to buy this load of crap because once you have had it a couple of months it goes offline with no useful backup from wd. Hence the www ... is there anyone out there who can help me access a 3/4 full 1tb Ethernet drive from my xp computer...

 

[thiggins]

There is a lot of hacking info for the WD MyBook on the web.

The drive's filesystem is EXT3.

Try some of the links here for tools for mounting EXT3 drives from XP:
http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+ext

 

[dcedavid]

It seems like many others I have made a disastrous decision to buy this load of crap because once you have had it a couple of months it goes offline with no useful backup from wd. Hence the www ... is there anyone out there who can help me access a 3/4 full 1tb Ethernet drive from my xp computer...

thanks a million.....printed off for some lunchtime reading tomorrow...I'm in your debt.

 

[nickgarnett]

Comments & Questions from a WD NAS engineer

It seems like many others I have made a disastrous decision to buy this load of crap because once you have had it a couple of months it goes offline with no useful backup from wd. Hence the www ... is there anyone out there who can help me access a 3/4 full 1tb Ethernet drive from my xp computer...

I'm a NAS software engineer with Western Digital.

If you are using MioNet on the LAN I suggest to directly map to the unit. Unless you have changed the device name you can access your shares directly on the LAN by mapping a drive to \\mybookworld\<share-name>, such as \\mybookworld\Public.

We generally try to help with every customer problem. Have you contacted customer service at "support.wdc.com"?


We have been having trouble with some recently purchased 1NCs, especially in Europe. What general area are you located? (North America, Europe, ...)