If the drive is correctly designed it will work correctly right of the box without any modifacations. I have been using and working on computers sense my first Apple IIe back in 1980’s. By any mends should you have to re-work your mother board or anything else to make their drive work. This is one item that was not checked out by their quality control or and the techs that designed the firmware for the drive.
No matter what you will do will not solve the problem until the firmware from Western Digital makes the changes on the drive. The drive will work in the 2.0 USB ports without any problem, but you didn’t purchase the 3.0 drive to run it in the 2.0 USB? The firmware on the hard drive is not set up to run on the 3.0 USB input and if it dose work it won’t work for long. that would at least let me know if this was a problem with the usb board on the drive or the hard drive itself. The problem with the WD USB 3.0 3TB drive is when you plug it into the 3.0 input it will disable that input. was if the drives do this when the usb is not connected.
#Wd my book 3tb usb 3.0 hard drive for mac
We than plugged in the Seagate USB 3.0 3TB drive into the 3.0 input and the drive was recognized and has been doing so sense it has been plugged in. My Book for Mac desktop storage features ultra-fast USB 3.0 connectivity, is formatted for Mac, compatible with Apple Time Machine, and offers password protection with hardware encryption. That took care of the problem with the unknown device. The only way we took care of the problem was to take the computer back to an earlier date. We than looked in the device manager and found a “UNKNOWN DEVICE”. So we plugged in a new Seagate USB 3.0 drive and the drive was not recognized at all in the USB 3.0 input. Thinking the drive was defective the drive was replaced. On the second computer the recognition of the drive was speratic. These disks were first connected to a server to the normal motherboard USB 2 ports. Even if WD does not sell it for 'always on', mine are running 24/24, 7/7 and they are running fine. I then took the computer back to the store I purchased it from and they replaced the computer with a new computer thinking the 3.0 port was bad. This is my 3th WD My Book 3TB External Desktop Hard Drive (USB 3.0/2.0) that I bought the last 12 months. After that I plugged it in again and the drive would not be recognized. The drive was recognized and I thought everything was fine? I then did a backup. I plugged the drive into the 3.0 USB input of the computer. I then purchased the WD 3TB USB 3.0, Mybook external drive.
#Wd my book 3tb usb 3.0 hard drive windows
I had purchased a new HP i7 computer with all the bells and whistles including a 3.0 built in hub and running Windows 7-64 bit.
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