My Book Home Edition WDH1CS5000 500 Gb Western Digital External Drive Data Recovery

Donald M.
Silver Spring, Maryland United States

I took this drive out of my old computer and put it into a new computer I had purchased. I wanted to then transfer the data to the new hard drive. But the new computer would not read the hard drive files (it did recognize the presence of the drive, but it would not read it). So I then reinstalled the drive back into the old computer and it would not boot up, giving me an error saying 'No OS'. There was also a message about problems with the FAT. I tried to get it to boot up with various recovery disks, but it would not work. I could access the drive with DOS and do a 'dir' listing, but 'Scanreg' just caused it to crash.

• Thanks for your assistance with this. Great job!
  Sincerely,
  Don

Lisa M. L.
Lewisberry, PA USA

Western Digital WD400BB

Drive DOESN'T SPIN

• Thanks!
  ~Lisa