Problem with WD My Book 320gb

[miweb]

Hi, about 2 weeks before I connected my WD My Book 320 gigabyte with Samsung LCD to wath my wedding in full HD quality (34 gigabytes). About three days later a connected my disk to PC again. My Bokk started to behave strange that the operation started and switched off. It is doing always now - the biggest problem is that file (with wedding) I cant download to my PC because the HDD it still turning off/swithing on and after about 30 seconds this process it turns off completely (but still is light on the control on) and I have to restart the entire computer.
The power source is not the problem - I tried to use different - it is the same. USB cable is not problem as well - I bought Firewire cabel, and it also doing the same stuff. Do you have any suggestion on this? Sometimes when I download the 3 gigabytes of photos it goes without any problem and sometimes I cant download file of 2 megabytes because of this problem.

The second question is - if there is any software which could I use to download this file to my PC as a resumable download.

Thanks for the advice.

[mr_spokk]

Hi, the best you can try is to dismantle your external drive and conect it directly to the pc.

Regards
Bosse

[pcimage]

Yes, agreed.

Your drive is probably dying and the bad/weak sectors are causing these issues.

[miweb]

Hi, the best you can try is to dismantle your external drive and conect it directly to the pc.

Regards
Bosse

Yes, I was thinking about this too, but I dont want to lose the warranty. But there is no other option I think....thank you.

[cadoro]

Any followup?

I have the exact same problem with my WD MyBook 500GB, and I did pull it out and tested on a PC, but the drive cannot be detected at all, and still has the same constant click/spin down problem.

[pepe]

95% heads.

pepe