I have a USB 2.0 WD My Passport Essential SE drive which I use with my Win 7
laptop. I always ignored a prompt on every USB plug in to repair the file system
as it worked fine. But my new Win 8 PC refuses to see it in File Explorer, it
appears and disappears constantly, playing the four tone chime over and over. So
I repaired its file system on the Win 7 machine and now it starts without
complaint there, but still no luck in Win 8. The Win 8 PC offered to repair it
once, and I accepted but it stopped a third of the way through, and Win 8 now no
longer offers to repair.

I have the latest 64 bit WD driver on the Win 8 PC, using different USB slots
make no difference. I've tried a new USB cable which is good with other
peripherals. I have a lot of data on the drive, so a reformat is not on the
table. I have another external USB 2.0 drive which loads in Win 8 with no
difficulty.

Is Win 8 so fussy? Any help will be appreciated, I can raise it with WD, but I'm
not sure that it's a drive problem.


Properties as shown in Win 8:
Device
USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_WD&Prod_My_Passport_071A&Rev_2019 \57584A314137304832383737&0
was configured.

Driver Name: disk.inf
Class GUID: {4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Driver Date: 06/21/2006
Driver Version: 6.2.9200.16384
Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Section: disk_install.NT
Driver Rank: 0xFF0006
Matching Device ID: GenDisk
Outranked Drivers: disk.inf:GenDisk:00FF2002
Device Updated: false



Thanks
John







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