Shuts down

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My Western Digital my book starts to start up and the lights come on for about 20 seconds and then it shuts down without ever connecting to my computer. what should i do?

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… probably have to replace it.   Check the power supply first, though…

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Some standard things you can do:

  1. Connect the power supply to the wall (makes sure you’re getting enough power).
  2. Change USB cable/port.
  3. Try on another computer.
  4. Check Disk Management to see if it shows up there.  If it shows up there, it may be have a corruption partition.

If none of those work, then, yeah, you gotta replace it - unless fzabkar has any ideas.