Western Digital My Book is one of the best external hard disk manufactured by WD; the hard disk is so called because the size and the weight of the device is similar to that of a book. The WD external hard disk provides high data transfer, reliable, affordable and very easy to use, it also offers high storage capacity which allows the user to store huge amount of data. In spite of these features, you may also need to face the loss of precious data from WD external hard drives due one or other issue. Assume that you have been using your WD My Book portable hard disk as a backup device from few months and one fine day the external HDD gives you an error message saying “the drive is corrupt and unreadable”. The computer detects your external WD hard disk but doesn’t allow you to access the files from it.
When you open “my Computer” the drive shows as “Local disk D” instead of “My Book K” like it used to. The data which you stored on the WD My Book is unreadable now and can get lost. Losing files due to corruption would be a terrible situation. Apart from corruption, there are many reasons responsible for the loss of data from WD My Book external hard disk.
Some of the main causes for data from WD My Book are:. Mistakenly Erasing Files: Erasing a file or folder from you’re My Book external hard disk while deleting unwanted data or other operation is the major mistake committed by lots of users.