But for this to happen on both 3.0 ports on the Lenovo and Pro 4 suggests it's an issue with the individual ports either, but somethingĪbout compatibility between the WD drive and 3.0 ports in general. Not an extension cable, to make sure it's getting enough power but that didn't do anything either.Īny suggestions? On the face of it, it can't be the hard drive or power cable as they work with the Lenovo 2.0 ports. I have the WD software installed, but when I go to the Back Up screen, it does not acknowledge the older My Book and only has the options for the newer My Book or the Cloud. I have them both connected to my desktop PC. I've also tried plugging the WD power cable directly into a wall socket, I have 2 external hard drives (WD My Books) one added in 2007 and one in 2016. Obviously I've also tried restarting the Pro 4 after uninstalling all the greyed out devices, but it still didn't work after restart. Out devices in Device Manager - but nothing's happened.
I've tried the same fix again - uninstalling all greyed However, it's stopped working again now (same issue: light comes on, spins up, nothing on the Pro 4). This worked, and the drive started working with the Pro 4 3.0 port again. I clicked "View > Show hidden devices" and then uninstalled all the greyed out devices which appeared under both "Disk Drives" and "Universal This issue came up a few weeks ago and, following advice I found online, I tried accessing Device Manager on the Pro 4. If you plug it in to either 2.0 port on the Lenovo it works fine.Īs I say, this is recent.
Nothing appears in Device Manager either. You don't get the "ping" sound you normally get when you plug in a USB device, and the drive does not appear in my computer. If you plug it in to either 3.0 port, the light comes on the hard drive and it spins up, but It doesn't work on the 3.0 ports on either the Lenovo or Pro 4. My issue is that, recently, the WD has started only working with the USB 2.0 ports on the Lenovo. The WD drive is set up for File History backups with the Lenovo. I have Bitlocker activated and have used it to encrypt the WD drive with Bitlocker too. I also have a relatively newly purchased WD My Book 2TB external
I have a Surface Pro 4 also running Windows 10 and with the usual single USB 3.0 port.
I have a Lenovo Z50 laptop running Windows 10 which has two USB 2.0 and one USB 3.0 ports. I've seen people post similar issues in the past, but haven't yet seen a response which has worked for me.įirst, my devices.