Newbie with 3 yr old wd media player, suddenly stopped reading Elements Drive

Hello all,

Bought the WD TV Live media player Dec 2009, hooked it up to 2 TB WD Elements, and have been enjoying both since then…until this evening!  Now when I plug in the 2 TB Elements external drive, the light on the Elements drive lights up and blinks (normal), the wd player’s usb light goes on, blinks…keeps blinking…then a minute later, it just goes out. Nothing is picked up by it…I don’t see it on the home screen.

How do i usually access my files? I don’t use the Media library, I just use the local drives feature. I tried searching the forums, didn’t find anything that exactly fits my problem, obviously I didn’t look through all the thousands of threads, but after looking for a couple hours I realized I don’t have the search skills necessary to find the answer.

I apologize if this has been answered,thanks for any help you guys can provide. Really a great product, no probs at all until today. BUT…if this is an unsolvable issue that plagues these devices…then that may change my opinion.

Try plugging the external drive into your PC and checking for errors.